Scores:
Friday: 12-2 Loss vs. Chicago. 7 errors. Box score.
Saturday: 4-3 Loss vs. Chicago. Nothing going vs Samardzija. Box score.
Sunday: 4-2 Loss vs. Chicago. Grilli falters 2nd day in a row. Box score.
Season Record: 72-67, 3rd place in NL Central, 11.0 games back
2.5 games back of a Wild Card spot
Notes: Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you. The promise of the playoffs is slipping away even though it’s still right in front of them. Seriously, one good week and the Bucs could be tied with the Cards again. The offense had serious problems this weekend. Brock Holt and Pedro Alvarez were the only players to record more than one hit. Yet the Bucs walked 14 times, including 4 from Gaby Sanchez. Jeff Locke was effective in his second start. Jason Grilli took back to back losses; unusual since he’s been a shutdown reliever all year.
Combined Box
| Pittsburgh | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | LOB | AVG | OBP |
| Holt, Br, 2B | 13 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0.385 | 0.385 |
| Alvarez, 3B | 12 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 0.333 | 0.385 |
| Jones, G, RF, 1B | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0.091 | 0.231 |
| McCutchen, A, CF | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0.111 | 0.333 |
| Marte, S, LF-CF | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0.000 | 0.167 |
| Sanchez, G, 1B | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0.000 | 0.400 |
| Presley, RF | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Harrison, SS | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.200 | 0.200 |
| McKenry, C | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0.200 | 0.333 |
| Barajas, C | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Barmes, SS | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0.000 | 0.200 |
| Clement, PH | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.500 | 0.667 |
| Locke, P | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 0.500 |
| Mercer, SS | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| McDonald, J, P | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Burnett, AJ, P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Totals | 94 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 14 | 26 | 47 | 0.160 | 0.273 |
Batting
Doubles (3): Alvarez 2 (23), McKenry (13)
Triples (1): Holt (1)
Home Runs (1): McCutchen (25)
Fielding
E: Holt 3 (3), Marte 2 (2), Barajas (4), Sanchez (3), Harrison (5)
DP: (Alvarez-Holt-Sanchez), (Barmes-Jones), (Barmes-Sanchez)
Pitching
| Pittsburgh | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | ERA | WHIP |
| Locke | 6.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3.00 | 1.17 |
| McDonald, J | 5.7 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4.76 | 1.59 |
| Burnett, AJ (L, 15-6) | 5.0 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5.40 | 1.80 |
| McPherson, K | 3.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.67 |
| Leroux | 1.7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Grilli (2 L, 1-6) | 1.3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 20.25 | 5.25 |
| Resop | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hanrahan | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| Hughes, J | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Watson | 0.7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| Takahashi | 0.3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 81.00 | 12.00 |
| Qualls | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Wilson | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -.– | -.– |
| Totals | 27.0 | 34 | 20 | 14 | 10 | 22 | 4 | 4.67 | 1.63 |
Transactions: Activated LF Starling Marte from the DL. Activated RHP Chad Qualls from the DL.
Filed under: baseball, Pirates Tagged: | baseball, Brock Holt, Chad Qualls, Cubs, Gaby Sanchez, Jason Grilli, Jeff Locke, Pedro Alvarez, Pirates, Starling Marte
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