Pirates Recap: Pirates Bats Can’t Keep Up With White Sox Again

The day after combining to score 22 runs, the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago White Sox put up another 16 runs on Saturday evening.

It was a promising first inning for Vince Velasquez, who got through the inning on only 13 pitches with a single and one strikeout. With two outs in the bottom of the first, Andrew McCutchen doubled to right field, and then scored on a Carlos Santana single for an early 1-0 lead.

Velasquez quickly ran into trouble in the second, and almost got out of it after a double-play, but a RBI single would tie the game up at one. Things quickly unraveled come the third inning, when he couldn’t find the strike zone. The White Sox ended up scoring four runs in the evening and…