Pittsburgh Pirates Ivan Nova served up five home runs in his last start.
Yikes.
When I was planning this week’s Five Fast Facts, the masochist in me thought to do a deep dive on each of the quintet of bombs that Nova offered up to willing Dodgers hitters.
Cooler heads prevailed. Today we are going to peel back and look at the bigger picture. Let’s take a look at five fast facts in regards to the Pirates’ starting pitching’s affinity for giving up dingers.
Fist, let’s set the stage. Even after Nova’s five-spot, the Pittsburgh Pirates rank right in the middle of things - 15th in MLB - in the amount of home runs given up by qualified starting pitchers with 66.