After hanging around for 50 minutes of hanging around whilst the infield was tidied up by the ground crew and the teams had had a chance to change into their alternate uniforms, it was time for the start of the second game.
It started badly for the Cubs as the first Pirate got a hit, and was driven in by the second hitter for an immediate lead - which turned out to be enough as the Pirates went on to shut out the Cubs 5-0. Liriano pitched 6 scoreless innings for the Pirates, but didn't really look anything special to me - not as good as when I've seen him before. The Cubs looked every bit the lovable losers as they found ways to get out of innings without scoring, even with men in scoring position with fewer than 2 outs.
Unfortunately, given the late start of the game, I couldn't wait around for the end of the game, but had to leave in the middle of the 8th inning in order to get back downtown for dinner. I'd tried to re-arrange the time, but the next they had was 10pm, and I didn't really want to have to wait that long for dinner.
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