The Pittsburgh Pirates can beat one of baseball’s best teams in the Los Angeles Dodgers, but they just can’t get past the Cincinnati Reds, one of baseball’s worst teams. That trend continued on Thursday night, as the Buccos were shutout by former Pirates pitcher Connor Overton in a 4-0 defeat.
Overton went six and one third strong innings, giving up just three hits, as the Buccos had just four total hits on the day in the loss.
Ben Gamel had two of them, going 2-for-4 on the day to raise his average to .