Errors, Errors, and even some more errors

The Pirates had an excellent chance to sweep the defending champion Giants. They blew the first game in extra innings thanks to errors. The won the second game, and then blew the third game thanks to more errors.

The first game was a well pitched game by Charlie Morton. Joel Hanrahan blew the game when he himself committed an error on a throw to first. That led to a runner on third with one out and a ground ball to a drawn in infield. Walker looked at the runner at third, who was not going and then soft tossed to first. The runner went and Ovebay could not get the runner at home.

McDonald pitched his first good game of the season and it led to a Pirate win. He needs to pitch like this more often. He was not the dominate strike out guy that I think PIrate fans expected, but he got the job done.

The third game was a return to errors as Jeff Karstens went 6 2/3 innings of 1 ER baseball. However, that 1 ER run was surrounded by a catching error at first base and an awful throw to catch Sandobal stealing. It went into center. Sandobal should have been thrown out and I am pretty positive he was running in order to attempt the steal of home by the other base runner, but Doumit made it all moot when he one hopped Walker and it went into centerfield. Karstens himself would commit another error in the 7th to give the Giants a 5th run. 4 were unearned. Unbelievable.

Walker is the only player who is playing well right now, with Tabata playing pretty good. McCutchen and Alvarez have officially reached panic time. They need to turn it around soon. I guess our new third baseman / short stop got some hits, and so maybe that is a good thing.

One word needs to be said about Daniel McCutchen as well. He still has a perfect 0.00 ERA. I know he has given up an inherited runner or two, but I think that he is very good out of the pen. He could be next year's Jeff Karstens. I hope he gets more chances.

It does not get any easier for the Pirates, who are now struggling to stay afloat in the division. We could sure use a few series against the Diamondback and the Mets.