The Pirates combined some less than stellar baseball with a late rally to make the score somewhat presentable in an 8-5 defeat in San Diego to the Padres.
James McDonald was the losing pitcher and is now 1-2.
The series concludes tonight at 6:35 with Zach Duke (5-10) against Jon Garland (10-8).
Pirate Hooks
1) Dumb play number one-James McDonald makes a nice play on a Adrian Gonzalez bunt,but has no chance to throw Gonzalez out.
Instead of holding the ball,McDonald throws the ball down the line,Gonzalez moved to second on the miscue,advanced to third on a sac fly and scored on a wild pitch.
2) More bad baseball-Ryan Doumit doesn't charge what looked to be a catchable fly ball by Jerry Hairston and instead plays the hop.
If Doumit catches it with no runners on,it is the third out of the inning and if he misplays it,there still is just a runner on with two down.
San Diego eventually scores three runs in the inning.
3) I suppose I could be too tough on Doumit,but he clearly isn't an outfielder and rapidly is looking to be a player without a true position.
Doumit might be on his way out unless his bat can play enough at a corner outfield to make up for questionable defense and I am not sure he can do that.
4) Another rough outing for Chan Ho Park with a three run outing for one inning of work.
I don't see anything different for Park,but watching the game,I looked up his numbers over the course of his career and he has never been anything but bad except for two stints in Los Angeles with the Dodgers.
Maybe the Dodgers could use a bullpen arm? I doubt that they would be interested.
5) Watched the game off the Padre feed and really liked Dick Enberg's game call.
Enberg has always been a terrific announcer,but I had forgotten just how good the seventy five year old Enberg was at baseball.
Very enjoyable evening.....
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