The Pirates are playing old-fashioned baseball while other teams are spending more time knocking the ball over the fence.
Which brand of baseball do you prefer?
The Pirates lost Monday night due to three Reds solo home runs. The Pirates scored two on a single, walk, single and a couple of productive outs. The Reds were one with 2016 baseball culture, and the Pirates were not.
Joe Sheehan recently lamented in Sports Illustrated that more than 38 percent of major league runs this year had been tallied via the home run, through May 1. If that holds, it would break the previous record of 37.