It’s bad to be Pittsburgh’s pirates.
It’s worse to be the White Sox of Chicago.
Yes, Yinzers, there are baseball fans who treat more difficult times you.
Well, a few anyway. Colorado Rockies are 22-74. In comparison, the pirates (39-58) have 17 more victories than the Rockies.
Have you caught that? The Colorado has 17 less wins that pirates. How is it possible – at the stars break – to have 17 less victories than another last place team?
Also consider that the BUCs had only nine victories in 20 departures with Paul Skenes on the mound. But it’s a story for another column.
The one I have already written.
Then there is Chicago. The White Sox come to the PNC Park this weekend at 32-65. It is the worst record of the American League. They have 27 games behind the Tigers of Detroit, leader of Al Central.
This team won consecutive matches once this month. On April 23, the club was already 5 to 19 years old and the season was over.
Not only that, but the White Sox are particularly awful on the road. They are 11-36. Meanwhile, BUCs have In fact been good at PNC Park, winning 26 of the 47 games.
With 332 points scored, Kansas City (328) is the only Al offense which is less than Chicago. In addition, in MINUS-98, only athletics (minus-134) has a worse race differential.
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Bailey Falter (6-4, 3.79), Mike Burrows (1-3, 4.83) and Andrew Heaney (4-8, 4.59) are planned To start for pirates. They will do it oppose By Jonathan Cannon (3-7, 4.44), Adrian Houser (5-2, 1.56) and Aaron Civale (1-6, 5.30).
Even more discouraging for the franchise is that the newly installed Pope Leo XIV is a White Sox fan. However, his team is always This bad.
In Pittsburgh, we have been waiting for a divine intervention since Sid Bream began to shoot in the third base in October 1992. Now that the White Sox can queue, what does it mean for how long we have to wait?
I mean, there is wine in wine and then there is to ask Oneil Cruz to remember how many there are.
Who do we expect miracles from above to this stage?
In any case, this is the ideal chance for pirates to generate a certain momentum out of the stars break.
They stopped bleeding from a sequence of eight consecutive defeats on Sunday in Minnesota. Now, what would you say to start disabled With a White Sox scan at home this weekend?
It’s Yinzerpalooza’s weekend after all. Mac Miller Bobblehead Doll Night is on Saturday. The doll itself plays “Knock-Knock”.
To leave To the pirates, however, not to respond to the door and get out of Chicago with a serial victory.
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