"Oh, we'll hit. We're all gonna hit."
This beckons way back to Bradenton. It was Josh Bell when I asked him and everyone else down there a billion questions about how the Pirates' bats might support their superlative pitching staff. And across the board, the answers essentially echoed Bell's. Confidently, too. No hedging. No hesitation.
On this remarkable Monday night at PNC Park, this remarkably resilient bunch, still contending in the face of two dozen different names on Major League Baseball's injured list, got three home runs out of Bell.
One .