Casual Friday: Pitching Tidbits

The Yankees are all about the pinstripes, in every sense of the word. The rest of MLB is more casual. This is the latest post in a Friday series called Casual Friday, in which I take a quick look around the rest of Major League Baseball.* Good pitching stops good hitting. That saying couldn't have been more true this week in Florida where Pirates pitching cooled off a red-hot Marlins team. Thanks to pitching coach Joe Kerrigan, Ross Ohlendorf, Jeff Karstens and Paul Maholm seem to have their arms pointed in the right direction, in the early goings, at least. I don't think they're this year's Tampa Bay Rays, but if they keep it up, the Pirates will have a pretty decent season.* Right pitcher, wrong jersey. Darren O'Day was claimed off waivers this week by the Texas Rangers. He had to fly up to Toronto the same day he was claimed to appear in a game against the Blue Jays. Nothing out of the ordinary about that. That does happen to players. But investigate the story...