One reason I never make too much of an issue of middle relief is that it's routinely replaceable.

Well, it's time to start routinely replacing a couple of these guys.

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Giant 7 Pirates 6 in 12 innings yesterday in San Francisco.

By all rights, this should have been a victory, and the team should have been flying back

with a 4-2 result on this western trip and doubly so after

Spencer Horwitz whacked a two-run double in the top of the tenth but johan ramirez came in

sprayed the ball all over creation which is pretty much what he does justin lawrence came in

gave up a bunch of hits and a walk, which is pretty much what he does.

And this after earlier on, Isaac Mattson, had made his own mess in the sixth inning,

giving up a couple of runs on three hits, which is pretty much what he does this season.

Now, the one thing I want to throw into this in advance is there seems to be a whole lot of,

from what I can see here and read, discussion about the Pirates bullpen is bad.

Bullpen stinks.

That bleeping bullpen.

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