Brantley is accusing Travis Wood of drilling poor Jay Bruce with a breaking pitch. I'm waiting for George Grande, who is the one guy in that entire throng of Reds' broadcasters who has a shred of common sense, to turn to Brantley and say: "Do you believe the stuff that comes out of your mouth?"

don.rob11 wrote:

Miscarriage of an inning, but the DP minimizes damage ...

Amazing the Pirates only ended up with two. That was a big 'ol mess.

In response to the "ask the booth" question, the best baseball nickname ever is Blue Moon. End of discussion.

Old McDonald and his 77 mph curve, out , maybe we can scratch something up here ..

forsberg_us wrote:

Are we seriously about to lose a game in which the Pirates dont have an RBI? 

On the bright side, we've been begging for some consistency. Matheny ran the same lineup out there and it's about to produce the same result--one flipping run.

Playing Descalso, who went a week between hits before getting one last Sunday, and batting him sixth might be one of the most confusing things I've seen in a season that is nothing but confusion. Who did Schumaker piss off?!

I like even keeled as well; but there are times when the manager needs to go out on the field and let his team know he has a heartbeat .(I like Matheny ,but I'm glad Oquendo did what he did as well ) It seems the strike zone became a little more sensible for both teams after that encounter .