After two straight wild pitches, Presley was able to advance to third base. Navarro came in to pinch hit for Clint Barmes. Casey McGehee began the inning with a fly out to right. Henry Rodriguez was now attempting to save the game for the Nationals. Tony Watson would eventually finish the inning. He began the top of the ninth with a single. He was an All-Star in 2011 and would again be an All-Star that year. He had 67 strikeouts in 59.2 innings pitched. In 2012, Hanrahan had 36 saves in 40 attempts. In came the dominant Joel Hanrahan for the save. Burnett pitched well in this game, allowing just two runs over those eight innings. The game stayed tied at two until the bottom of the eighth inning when Walker hit a sac fly, giving the Pirates a 3-2 lead. In the bottom of the fourth, the Pirates answered with a pair of solo home runs from McCutchen and G.I. In the fourth, they added another run thanks to a Rick Ankiel single that scored Harper. In this game, the Nationals took an early 1-0 lead in the second inning thanks to a Wilson Ramos home run. Names like Alex Presley and Yamaico Navarro got at bats. The young core of him, Neil Walker, Pedro Alvarez, and Jose Tabata seemed promising at the time. The Pirates on the other hand were led by budding superstar, Andrew McCutchen. Edwin Jackson got the start on this night.

The Nationals would go on to win 98 games. Stephen Strasburg, Jordan Zimmermann, and Gio Gonzalez provided a solid starting rotation. At that point, the Nationals were very good. On May 8, 2012, the Pittsburgh Pirates hosted the Washington Nationals in the first game of a three game set. If you have any forgotten games that you’d like to share, please leave a comment.

For whatever reason, this game caught my eye. But in the moment, they were exciting.įor this post, I am sharing a game that I had previously forgotten about before scrolling down the old baseball reference page and digging it up. They are the games that really didn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. What are some games, specifically Pirate games from this past decade, that I’ve just flat out forgotten about? These are the deep cuts. This past week, I enjoyed watching the rerun of Pirates defeating the Reds in the 2013 Wild Card Game.Īll of these past sporting events got me thinking. If you put an NFL game on from any era, I’ll probably watch. As an NBA fan, it’s neat to watch classic Lakers-Celtics battles from the 80s or Jordan’s Bulls in the 90s. Watching sporting events from the past has helped. With baseball (and sports in general) gone for the foreseeable future, I’ve been trying to find different ways to entertain myself.

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