After a delay of a bit less than an hour, the Dodgers and Pirates finally got underway and we are lucky they did. The staff pitched a shutout and the bats broke out the dongs to cruise for a 5-0 victory and a .500 record. That’s four in a row as well.
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Ross Stripling continued to look every bit the part of a front-line starter, which is just a wild sentence to type. While he went just five innings today on 89 pitches, Stripling walked none and allowed just four singles over those shutout frames, striking out seven Pirates to reduce his ERA to 1.