In an all-around awful display of baseball, the Pirates lost to Detroit, 10-7, at LECOM Park. The pitching was bad, but the sort of dismal defensive display that’s been a hallmark of Derek Shelton’s teams didn’t help. The Pirates are now 3-8-2 on the spring.
Starter Rich Hill was fine. He should have gotten three scoreless innings, but he made the mistake of picking a runner off first with runners at the corners and two outs in the third. The Pirates naturally botched the rundown and let the runner on third “steal” home.
Five relievers followed Hill and every one except Osvaldo Bido gave up at least one run.