While it would shock all realistic thinkers if the Pittsburgh Pirates somehow ended up winning their first division championship since the Bush administration (that’s H.W., not W), this season has had enough ups and downs to the point where we should come to expect peaks and valleys from the Pirates and everybody else in the NL Central. Nobody should have been surprised when Pittsburgh went 5-2 to close out the first half, and followed it up by stinking up Wrigley Field this past weekend. That inconsistency has kind of been a theme all season, and a mighty frustrating one.
Pittsburgh Pirates flaws on display in Wrigley
