ST. LOUIS -- There's an ever-present temptation in baseball that, when one thing works, try it again. Even in this age of advanced analytics, where the game's micromanaged as never before, it can still come down to a singular human instinct.
We did this. It worked.
The Pirates capped a lousy 1-5 trip out of the All-Star break with a lousier-than-all-of-it 6-5 loss to the Cardinals on this Wednesday afternoon at blistering Busch Stadium. They're 45-50, they're 6 1/2 out in the Central, they're treading toward toast status for 2019, and I'll get to all of that in a bit.