Final Score: Pirates 1 Braves 6
Why The Pirates Lost: Martin Perez made his first start in over a month, and it was not good. In 4 innings he gave up 6 runs on 8 hits and 2 walks. He had the same issues that he had when he went on the IL on May 26th. He was working from behind a lot as he could not locate his pitches. With the Pirates trying to conserve innings with the young pitchers he better correct this soon. The Pirate bats were silenced by Charlie Morton pitching 6 and 1/3 innings giving up only 3 hits and walking 1. The only good news was Bryan Reynolds extended his hitting streak to 24 games by getting a seeing eye ground ball through the infield in his last at bat in the 8th inning. Ke'Bryan Hayes did get a couple of hits so maybe he might be coming out of his funk. No such signs for Oneil Cruz going 0 for 4 with 3 strikeouts. As a team the Pirates struck out 13 times. Keep on processing boys.
Key Moment Of The Game: It was 1-0 going into the top of the 3rd when the Braves broke it open quickly. In 19 pitches the Braves went single, walk, single, double, single to make the score 5-0 and this game was over. They were able to add a 5th run in the inning to make the score 6-0. The Pirates never really threatened to make a game of it.
Next Game: This afternoon, Braves in Atlanta. Two big guns are going today, Paul Skenes vs. Max Fried. The only hope for the Pirates is that in his last 3 starts Fried has not gone past the 6th inning and only pitched 5+ in two of them. With one of the best lefties in the game going, I do not expect to see Oneil Cruz in the lineup. I normally do not agree with that, but in this case, Cruz is in such a funk right now, I don't think he will come out of it against this guy. The series in Cincinnati started out badly and the Pirates won the next two. Could this happen again against the mighty Braves. Who knows? Only the Shadow Shelton knows.
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