I can not believe the kind of baseball the Pirates have been playing since the All-Star break. The team looked to be a serious contender for the division during the first few weeks of the year when the starting rotation was throwing up a bunch of zeroes through the first three weeks of the year.
Then injuries started to happen and they slid back to reality and in a very clustered and talented NL Central standings.
At the All-Star Break they were just a few games back from a Wild Card berth and looked to potentially be a buyer at the trade deadline.
Then the All-Star Break happened and it has been nothing but losing since.
4-24
That is the Pirates record since the All-Star break.
4 WINS!!!
Their winning percentage is .142 since the break.
I legit haven't seen baseball this bad in a very long time and that's with a team that had 2 DECADES OF SUB .500 BASEBALL!
When the Pirates win a game, announcer Greg Brown says "Raise The Jolly Roger". This is a reference to Pirate ships hoisting their colors after approaching a ship requesting their surrender or risk the fate of death.
It has been over a week since the Pirates have raised the Jolly Roger so I am posting all my Andrew McCutchen relic cards featuring the Jolly Roger Pirates logo sleeve patch.
Here's hoping they do better than continue at a .142 pace the rest of the year.
Looks like your post broke them out of their slump :)
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