Rainout

Tonight's Brewers/Pirates game has been postponed, and no makeup day has been scheduled. The only other time the Brewers come to Pittsburgh is August 22 - August 24, so the makeup game will most likely be scheduled for then.

Nobody wanted to see this game get rained out. The Penguins start their playoff series tomorrow night, so there will be buzz in Pittsburgh for that which will take away from the Pirates. Also, the Pirates game will not be on ROOT sports because of that Penguins game, so that's one less Pirate game we get to watch on TV.

The Pirates will stick with Correia and Maholm for the 2 games in this series, but it will be interesting to see what they do after that. They will most likely stick with Karstens for the first game of the next series (against the Reds), but there is also the possibility of going straight to Morton and McDonald then going straight back to Correia and bypassing Karstens turn. That's what I would do. Why throw out an inferior starter when you have a better guy ready to go on normal rest? We'll see what happens, Karstens has looked very good early on this year.

So that's it for tonight, a frustrating sports day for sure. If you're planning on watching the Penguins game tomorrow night but want to keep tabs on the Bucco game, check back right here for the liveblog and gameday.