One of the best things about the Pirates thus far in 2012 is that when the play a bad baseball team, they don't mess around with them. The Twins are a pretty bad team this year and the Pirates took advantage of that from the outset of this one. When the Twins tried to fight their way back into it, the Pirates slammed the door shut. This game got off to a weird start when Josh Harrison hit a hard fly ball to deep left field and Josh Willingham tried to make a leaping catch at the warning track, only to have the ball riccochet off of his chest and over the short left field wall at PNC Park. I think that in any stadium with a wall taller than six feet, that ball ends up being maybe a double off of the wall or Willingham's able to finagle a catch. In PNC, though, the Pirates had a 1-0 lead. The Pirates couldn't add on to that lead for a few innings, but Kevin Correia did a nice job keeping the Twins mostly off of the basepaths until Josh Harrison singled in the fifth and sto...
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PLAYERS:
Josh Harrison,
Josh Willingham,
Kevin Correia,
Andrew McCutchen,
Ryan Doumit,
Scott Diamond,
Casey McGehee,
Clint Hurdle,
Tony Watson,
Pedro Alvarez,
Clint Barmes,
Juan Cruz,
Chris Resop,
Justin Masterson
TEAMS: Minnesota Twins, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Indians
TEAMS: Minnesota Twins, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Indians
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