As sympathetic as I am to the FUBAR for Kumar campaign - though the Pirates seem to be on another level of suckitude - I have to say I hate watching my team lose. This past week or so, fun game against the Dodgers on Wednesday notwithstanding, was pretty brutal to see, and no doubt brutal for the youngest team in baseball to go through. Couldn’t they just have one convincing win? For us? For them?
Turns out they can!
Nick Margevicius, coming off a surprising quality start against the Astros, was fire out of the gate, needing just a dozen pitches to get through the first frame while striking out leadoff man Nick Solak on a 70 MPH slow curve and getting Danny Santana to whiff on a middle-middle changeup.