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It’s time for the Ben Cherington era to end after this season. 7 years on the job and the best team he’s assembled has a ceiling of .500ish thanks to his neglect of the bullpen and 3B

Bubba Chandler is not a damn major league starting pitcher. Mental midget refuses to throw strikes

The Phillies blowing out the Pirates today was incredibly predictable

This is going to be a replication of the Cardinals series. Blow the first game and the whole series goes to shit

2-3 run losses with blown leads: 3/28 vs NYM (1-0 B10, 2-1 B11) 4/27 vs STL (2-0 T9) 5/15 vs PHI (6-0 and 8-5 T9)

1-run losses with blown leads: 4/12 vs CHC (5-0 and 6-3 B7) 4/16 vs WSH (6-5 T7) 4/18 vs TB (4-0 T5) 5/10 vs SF (4-2 B6 and 6-4 B10)

The Pirates have lost 21 games 10/21 losses by 4+ runs (Fully earned) 6/21 losses by 1 run (Blew leads in 4) 5/21 losses by 2-3 runs (Blew leads in 3) Of the Pirates 11 losses by 1-3 runs, they’ve blown leads in 7 of them

The Pirates could seriously be 30-15 if they knew how to close out games

@BrentThompsonMU He treats him like he’s the worst reliever on the roster when he’s likely top 3

I’m going to criticize DK for this and he’s now done it twice in a week. He pitched Sisk in back to back games when it wasn’t needed. That strategy made him unavailable Sunday and tonight when he was needed. #LetsGoBucs

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Santana might be reaching DFA territory. He has absolutely nothing. How much longer can you hide him?

This isn’t even factoring in the trade deadline. The more this bullpen nonsense happens or an injury occurs, the less likely it is the Pirates buy at the deadline

You can only blow so many games for so long before it statistically reaches a point where it crushes any hope of making the playoffs. The Pirates are about to be 24-21 and they should realistically be 29-16. That’s a big difference when looking ahead to the next 117

Skenes is going to have to hold off the sweep on Sunday

Tonight’s game could have positioned the Pirates to have a winning series, move back to 5 games over .500, have a winning homestand, list goes on. Such a shame how they pissed it all away

How could I forget the Santana meltdown in the opener of the Cardinals series and Sunday’s meltdown in San Francisco? This team has easily blown 5 games this season if they don’t pull this one out

When does it end? 5-0 lead against the Cubs. Blew it. 4-0 lead against the Rays. Blew it. 6-0 lead tonight. Blew it

Like I said the other day, this team is very similar to the 2016 team in many ways. That bullpen was also great at blowing games!

The Griffin error proves to be very costly

The Pirates had a 6 run lead in this game. Losing would be beyond deflating