The rhyming post titles continue.
The Pirates defeated the Yankees today by the score of 12-7. The offense started early and continued often. McCutchen singled to begin CC Sabathia's rough outing. After McCutchen, Cedeno doubled to left and moved Cutch to third. Milledge then brought him in with a single into right field. Garrett Jones joined the party in a big way, with a monstrous home run to deep right center field that put the Pirates up 4-0.
Charlie Morton could have done better to keep the lead, he gave up 3 runs in his 3 innings of work. He had 2 walks, which you don't want to see, but he did throw some good pitches in his outing. His high point was when he struck out Curtis Granderson on 3 pitches. It really didn't matter what Morton would do today, because he could not have possibly looked worse than Brian Burres did. Burres gave up 4 runs in .2 innings including 3 walks. He was awful. But don't fret Pirate fans, he doesn't have a chance to make the team out of spring training. That was all the Yankees would get though. Ronald Uviedo, DJ Carrasco, Donnie Veal, and Anthony Claggett teamed up to shut out the Yankees in their combined 5.1 innings of work.
The same couldn't be said for the Yankees bullpen. The Pirates scored 6 runs off of the relief pitchers today. RBI's after that first inning went to Lastings Milledge (his second of the game), Andy LaRoche, Bobby Crosby, John Raynor, Pedro Alvarez, Steve Pearce, Doug Bernier, and Hector Gimenez. Cedeno, Jones, and Raynor all had multi-hit games. At the end of the contest, the Pirates had another 15 hit game on the board.
Speaking of John Raynor, he has been absolutely no fire this spring. He is now hitting .538 this spring (that's 7 hits in 13 at bats). He is one of the guys battling for the 5th outfield spot, and if he keeps hitting like this I don't think the Pirates will have any choice but to give it to him. He plays great defense and he can fly around the bases. He sure has my vote right now.
The Pirates are back in action tomorrow against the Orioles at 7:05. The game will be on FSNPittsburgh and we will be having another live blog. Be sure to check back here during the game and chat with us!
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