Clipped by the Jays

First in what I hope will become the return to daily Pirate coverage.

Looks like my schedule looks as follows -12 days at work,2 off.12 on and then MAYBE a normal schedule again to try to pull some fun out of this baseball season in August.

The Pirates were just overpowered by cannon armed Brandon Morrow in a 2-1 loss in Toronto.
Pittsburgh managed just four singles in the game and struck out ten times against Morrow,with Paul Maholm picking up the loss (4-9).
The series and interleague season ends (YES!) tonight with Jeff Karstens (5-4) against Toronto's Brett Cecil (1-2).

Pirate Hooks

1) Not a ton to say other than the Pirates blundered twice on the base paths,once in the inning that they scored their only run in (5th).
Neil Walker scored on a Ronny Cedeno single to center that Matt Diaz make far too big of a turn at second leaving him a dead duck as the throw home was cut off.
Combine that with a Garrett Jones stumble,fumble and fall that saw him tagged out at first and it was a bad running night....

2) Paul Maholm was fine,but Brandon Morrow was dominating.
Morrow showed signs of what made him a first rounder by Seattle a few years back with a fastball.slider combo that kept Pittsburgh off balance all evening long.

3) Toronto is a pretty dull team to watch.
Take former Buc Jose Bautista's bat away and it gets downright tedious.

4) Anyone want to explain to me how a team calls itself the Blue Jays and yet has so little blue on their hats and jerseys?

5) The Rogers Centre (nee SkyDome) might be the last stadium standing against the Tampa stadium for worst in the game.Ugh...
More on that tomorrow...

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