The final game of a three-game set, the first pair coming yesterday in a split doubleheader, saw the Pirates take the series with a 4-2 win on a pair of runs in the eighth inning.
The calendar said April, but the weather sure didn’t agree: it was a chilly 43°F (6°C) and a breezy 15 mph (24 km/h) wind made for some interesting times in the outfield. I was thinking yesterday morning, as I watched a layer of wet snow coat the ground, that a few days earlier I was doing yard work in shorts. Oh well, we’ll all be complaining about the heat in the Great Lakes area soon enough.