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Stunning, the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates, which once gave a 9-0 lead in the first inning against the Colorado Rockies on Friday evening in Denver, managed to complete a historic collapse by the worst team in MLB.
The final score? 17-16 Rockies.
You read that well: the pirates and rockies combined for 33 runs and 40 hits.
The victory of Colorado was the first for a team that had since allowed nine points in the first inning Cleveland did that performance in 2006.
For the Rockies, this victory also represents a rare Feel-good moment during another horrible season. The club has still darkened 30 victories in the year (29-80), although at least one night they can make that historical uselessness slide. One could easily argue for this match as the game of the year in MLB.
On the other hand, the Pirates suffered one of their biggest losses in recent memory, a nail in the coffin of what was still a terrible campaign in Pittsburgh. They have been left to pick up the pieces from here, but when they score 16 runs and still lose this Colorado team, the Pirates are only blaming themselves.
To further illustrate how rare a loss of this caliber is for the Pirates, one should go back to 1901 for the last time. Pittsburgh scored so many points and did not get away.
That is not the kind of history that a team wants to make in what context. But as former Rockies manager Bud Black would be the first to say, “That’s baseball.”
That is indeed baseball.
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