Game 122 : Pirates vs. Cardinals : 08.17.11 : Live Game Thread!

[Kipper]

[Kipper]

[Kipper]

Tonight's LINEUP vs. STL, 7:05 p.m. ET (ROOT SPORTS, FM Newstalk 104.7, Pirates Radio Network, MLB.TV): Tabata RF, Jones 1B, McCutchen CF, Doumit C, Walker 2B, Ludwick LF, Wood 3B, Cedeno SS, Maholm P.

[Kipper]

Nice Lineup.

Doumit adds so much, especially with Lee being out. It keeps Walker or Cutch out of that 4 spot.

Walker has hit .327 batting 5th in 13 games this year, so this is a nice position for him in the batting lineup.

It's a pretty optimized batting order actually.

Ryan Ludwick is batting .429 in the 6 spot

4 of Wood's 7 Homers have come from the 7 Spot

[jleisele58]

Maholm off to his usual 3 run first inning start, bucs are battling in their half of the first, jones double cutch infield single, doumit flies out real deep to center, and walker walks to load the bases with 2 outs

[jleisele58]

ludwick almost plates a couple but the right fielder caught the sinking ball around the shins for the 3rd out, hopefully we can continue to hit lohse hard.

[exNCite]

YESSSSSSS!!!!! Tabata shows some power. 3-2 now

[Kipper]

Lohse was starting to my excitement out of the lineup and then Tabata gave it some life

[Kipper]

For all of you talking about how Pedro hurts us with his defense, Cedeno is right there in the same boat or more hurting us more with errors and poor decisions. That is at least the 5th time Ive seen this year that Cedeno should've forced out at home and didn't. hes also passed up on easy DPs to get a single out a good half of a dozen times.

I swear Cedeno has mush for brains when it comes to decision making

4-2 Cards

[jleisele58]

win or lose this game, it was a real good series for us, ill take it, its not like we were going to get back those 13 bad losses all at once

[Kipper]

didnt mean "force" with cedeno meant to say "tag"

5-2 Cards

[Kipper]

win or lose this game, it was a real good series for us, ill take it, its not like we were going to get back those 13 bad losses all at once

Taking 2 of 3 from the Cards is fantastic. Outswide of the Brewers series and we havent beaten the Brewers all year, we've won 2 series against 1st or 2nd place teams in San Francisco and St.Louis

that is good news

[Kipper]

Woodf doesnt get an out at 3B, throws the ball away to 1st, run scores. bases loaded.

Remind me again about pedro hurting the team? That was as bad a sequence of plays as ive seen in a while and now it;ll cause hurdle to play singles hitting harrison tomorrow