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Now if the Cardinals would start to regress and lose sometime. How does a team lose two quality starting pitchers and two of their top offensive threats and continue to play .660 baseball?

The Bucco's have the fourth best record in all of baseball and are 6 games out. That is unreal.

Buccos breaking out the sticks tonight!

I'm pouring the Kool-Aid. But I'm not drinking it until they take the series against the Cards in a couple weeks. As on fire as they have been, so has St. Louis. The Bucs can't gain any ground on a team w/o its 2 best pitchers and 2 great hitters?

Cervelli is making me miss Russell Martin less each game. Cervelli is only making $800,000 this year and was another absolutely remarkable job by the Pirates scouting department.

He has caught 40 straight shut out innings and he doesn't even get to catch the Pirates best pitcher. Remarkable!

The Bucs went 17-9 in the month of June. Gotta like that.

Unfortunately .680 baseball was only good enough for them to lose a game in the standings to the Cardinals. The Buccos entered June seven games behind the Cards and are now 8 games behind. Unreal.

Even though it is only the halfway point in the season, the ten game homestretch right before the all-star break will be huge especially the four games vs. the Cards right before the break. 7-3 (with at least three wins coming against the Cards) in those 10 would be nice.

Pirates have the second best record in the national league and of course it would be the Cardinals in front of them. They are ridiculously consistant.