The Pirates surprised the Dodgers yesterday, refusing to fold after LA erased a 3-0 deficit late in the game.
Greg Brown has the story.
Manager Derek Shelton says the 8th inning home run by Daniel Vogelbach was the result of a good at-bat.
Shelton says the Pirates are not a team that gets down on itself.
It was another solid start by Dillon Peters. The Pirates’ lefty says the Bucs never back down.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was impressed by the Pirates.
Fresh from taking their series against the best team in the NL, the Pirates get another shot at the team with the worst record tonight. The Cincinnati Reds visit PNC Park for a four-game series starting tonight. The Reds took two ourt of three against the Pirates last weekend. JT Brubaker (0-2, 5.68 ERA) pitches for the Bucs against the Reds’ Connor Overton (0-0, 2.53 ERA). It’s a 6:10 airtime on WCCS.
In his weekly update yesterday, Pirates Director of Sports Medicine Todd Tomczyk said outfielder Jake Marisnick will need surgery on the thumb he injured making a diving catch on Monday night. It will be a repair rather than a reconstruction, so Tomczyk said Marisnick will be out weeks rather than months.
Shortstop Kevin Newman appears to be ahead of schedule in his return from a groin problem. He has resumed running and is expected to begin a rehab assignment as early as this weekend. The Pirates put catcher Roberto Perez on the 60-day disabled list with a serious hamstring injury.
Tomczyk said reliever Blake Cederlind had “some more-than-usual forearm soreness” after throwing a live bullpen session this week, and will be shut down for the next four or five days. The fireballing right-hander is recovering from Tommy John surgery.
The Bucs yesterday optioned pitcher Beau Sulser to Indianapolis and called up Indy pitcher Cam Alldred.
ALTOONA CURVE
Altoona jumped to a 2-0 lead in the second inning and took a 2-1 lead into the 8th, but Somerset rallied with a run in the 8th and two more in the 9th to beat the Curve, 4-2. The tying run scored on a two-base advancement on a fly ball was initially ruled a double. But after an umpire conference, the call was changed to a fly ball out caught by Connor Scott, who fell to the ground and flipped the ball to Matt Frazier for the throw in. The umps ruled that the runner had legally tagged up and scored from second.
Frazier had two doubles and Nick Gonzales and Liover Peguero each had two singles.
The Curve will send Omar Cruz to the mound for the third game of the series tonight.
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