Showing posts with label Pittsburgh Pirates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pittsburgh Pirates. Show all posts

8/30/2009

Game 128: Brewers 4, Pirates 1

No matter how bad
There's always a step lower
The Pittsburgh Pirates
-db

8/29/2009

Game 127: Brewers 7, Pirates 3

Holding the lead late
Overcomes middling collapse.
On the cusp of streak.
-db

8/28/2009

Game 126: Brewers 8, Pirates 6

Big lead slips away
Parra nearly ruins day
Crew wins anyway
-db

8/20/2009

Game 118: Brewers 1, Pirates 3

Swept by lowly Bucs
Clear the players really don't
Give a flying $#&%
-dz


Pirates beat Brewers
Junior college beat Pirates
Where's that leave the crew?
-db

8/19/2009

Game 117: Brewers 2, Pirates 5

What to write today
About Crew bottoming out?
Can they sink lower?
-dz

Melvin's bumbling
Leads to August stumbling
Fans left mumbling
-db

8/17/2009

Game 116: Pirates 9, Brewers 5

Cash in your chips, Doug
you have five second baseman
and you need an ace
~Scott

7/22/2009

Game 93: Brewers 7, Pirates 8

Alka-Seltzer game
Suppan eats sour innings
McClung coughs up lead
~Scott

Clutch sticks in neutral
Series win sputters to halt
Walk-off in waiting
-db

Game 92: Brewers 2, Pirates 0

Battering the ball
But only Prince is timely
Two runs on 12 hits
-db

Gamecast prediction
Three outs in ninth, up two runs
99 percent
-db

Looper goes seven
Saved by Cameron's defense
Pirates back in place
-db

7/21/2009

Game 91: Brewers 5, Pirates 8

Lopez offers a spark
But pitching Burns victory
Season's charred remains
-db


Veteran Macha
Discovers Yostian slump
Sveum to the rescue?
-db


Game story

5/06/2009

Game 27: Brewers 8, Pirates 5

Eerie Pittsburgh night
Hardy rises from the dead
Spooks Pirate pitchers
-dz


Suppan's second wind
Villanueva's third save
Hardy victory
-db

4/29/2009

Game 20: Brewers 6, Pirates 5

Sixth inning rally
Crawling back to .500
Brewers own Pirates
-db


12 pitches, three outs
Hoffman rocks the ninth inning
Relief for bullpen
-db

4/27/2009

Game 19: Brewers 10, Pirates 5

Every frickin' game
Villanueva blows lead
Plane ride to Nashville
-db


Rally to protect
USS Braun under fire
drop cheapshot Pirates
-db

Very happy that
Coffey gets out of the eighth
No win for CV
-dz

9/26/2008

September 25 - Brewers: 5 Pirates: 1 (10 innings)

White towels were waving
But there was no way in hell
They meant surrender
-DZ

With bases loaded
Braun sends mighty swing to left
Ball swallowed by crowd
-DZ

9/25/2008

September 24 - Brewers 4, Pirates 2

Crew wins with two hits--
They say playoff teams always
Find ways to win games.
-DZ


Strand lead-off triple
Squander grand slam and big lead
Mets are Brewers-esque! 
-db

9/24/2008

September 23 - Brewers 7, Pirates 5

Mota is mortal
Or did he want to give Prince
Chance to touch 'em all?
-DZ


Some wisdom from Sveum:
No matter how the game starts
You can win in ninth.
-db


Sveum's Anatomy:
Doctor, come quick, won't believe ...
Offense is alive!
-db

9/01/2008

Aug. 31 - Brewers 7, Pirates 0

Hit or no-hitter?
CC gives up a blooper
Scorer drops the ball
-db

Be very quiet ...
Picked up two games in two days
We're hunting Cubbies
-db

8/30/2008

Aug. 30 - Brewers 11, Pirates 3

Easy win, big lead-
Now it gets interesting.
September awaits
-db

Aug. 29 - Brewers 3, Pirates 1

Waiting for collapse-
Last year stuck in memory.
Controlled emotion
-db

8/24/2008

Aug. 24 - Brewers 4, Pirates 3 - 12 innings

Of course it's Hardy -
Who else could hit winner on
his Bobblehead Day?
-db


Three on, no one out -
Of course Mota shut 'em down.
Was there any doubt?
-db



Cameron's Day On
5-for-5 (plus he gets Sloane)
Ferris Bueller who?
-db

Aug 23 - Brewers 6, Pirates 3

Sup's cannon, Braun's bomb
Sink Pirates' hopes of spoils.
Hanging in gallows ...
-db