Losing ugly
I missed it - staying up late for West Coast games is too much to ask anymore - but the end of last night's Pirates game apparently was a real doozy. Our sports editor, Chris Dugan, said the bottom of the ninth against the Giants was the worst half inning of baseball he's seen.
The Pirates led 3-0 at one point and still were up by a run when I dozed off. But I knew where this was headed. Pittsburgh had squandered too many opportunities - many of them a result of Jeremy "The Second Coming of Derek Bell" Burnitz stranding seven runners on base in his first three plate appearances - for this one to have a happy ending.
Indeed, the Giants scored the winning run in the ninth, basically on a couple of pop-ups that should have been outs (Burnitz was involved in one) and a wild pitch.
Counting the Super Bowl, the Steelers won almost as many road games in the postseason (four) as the Pirates have so far in the regular season (five). And it's getting to be the middle of June.
Don't wait up. posted at 5:41 PM by Harry Funk
