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Baseball Musings
May 08, 2008
Scoring in Pittsburgh

The Pirates take three out of three from the Giants, winning today's contest 5-4. The Pirates scored at about their average, 5.03 runs. That's sixth in the majors and fifth in the National League. Pittsburgh is getting the most out of four hitters have great seasons, McLouth, Bay, Doumit and Nady. All but Doumit have OBAs over .400; all but Bay have slugging percentages over .500. John Russell bunched them together in the lineup, letting nothing break up the streak of batters getting on base. Sanchez added three hits today, and if he starts hitting in front of these four, I can see the Pirates scoring going up. The rest of the lineup is terrible, but Russell is doing a good job of getting the most out of his best hitters.

Update: Fixed manager's name.


Posted by David Pinto at 03:57 PM | Games | TrackBack (0)
Comments

I think you mean John Russell, not Joel Skinner.

Posted by: calig23 at May 8, 2008 04:14 PM

I think you mean John Russell, not Joel Skinner.

Posted by: calig23 at May 8, 2008 04:15 PM

Er, sorry about the double post. For some reason it was taking forever for the first attempt to go through.

Posted by: calig23 at May 8, 2008 04:18 PM

I couldn't remember Russell's name, so I did a google search and the first name to pop up was Skinner. I guess people don't write about Russell much.

Posted by: David Pinto at May 8, 2008 04:25 PM

Now if they only had KC's pitching....or if KC had Pitt's offense...

Posted by: StatPattern.com at May 8, 2008 10:48 PM
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