Honestly, I wish all games were available via streaming, whatever, so that everyone could watch, everyone could see this type of ball for themselves.

Good morning to you. Good. Tuesday morning. I'm Dan Kovachvich of

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Pirates 5, Yankees 3 last night in Tampa up at George M. Steinbrenner Field.

Jose Orkidi started the game, and that didn't go too well. Three and two-thirds

innings, four hits, two of them were home runs. Isaac Mattson followed him with an inning

and a third of perfect relief, strikeout in there. That's good to see. Johann Ramirez walked a

couple of guys, not good to see. There are things that are more

relevant than others in that setting, in Florida or in Arizona, than others. For example,

Andy Rodriguez homered, and you think, yay, Andy, all right, way to go, Andy.

Separate yourself a little bit.

Andy, get up here.

Give us a catcher who could actually hit.

Andy popped up to left field and he sunk his head as if someone had just kicked his dog

in moping up to first base because it was such

an obvious pop-up, but it just manages to carry over. And I had the Yankees stream on, and

whoever they're broadcaster is, he says, there's a wall scraper for Rodriguez, which was awesome. So the home runs, for the most

part, don't matter. If you really, really get into one and you occasionally have a wall scraper,

but one that goes into the Nuzzo, Florida wind coming off the Gulf of Mexico, that's something

to tip the cap for.

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