Burnes has had an annoying number of non competitive 2 strike pitches tonight.
it annoys me because it adds pitches to his count and suggests that his command is not at its best. Some times that is an omen for a bad inning coming up.
The Pirates are doing their best to hand the Brewers this game with walks and misplays, but the Brewers hitters are too incompetent to take advantage of it.
I don’t know what the other sources show, but using the standards applied to the controversial call on Sunday, according to Game Day the 3-2 pitch to Yelich was a “clear strike” with the ball kissing the top of the strike zone.
Schroeder is as bad as Levering when it comes to sounding like the Brewers are always so unlucky.
The Pirates have hit some shots so don’t make it sound like they have been so lucky.
You don’t know how a walk to Adames would have affected how the pitcher would have worked to Frelick and what would have happened after that.
This is unfolding as a game where it’s going to take a lot of runs to win so squandering an opportunity hurts.
I have no problem swinging 3-0, but the hitter has to be smart enough to pick out a hittable pitch in a certain spot, not just hack away at whatever crap the pitcher throws.