'Is this the start of a slump' Bae Ji-hwan goes hitless in 3 straight games...PIT loses second straight, 8th straight, falls to 4th in NL Central

 Bae Ji-hwan (24, Pittsburgh Pirates) hasn't recorded a hit in three straight games. Pittsburgh has lost eight straight games, dropping to fourth place in the National League Central. 


Bae went 0-for-2 with a walk and a strikeout in the eighth inning of the second game of a three-game home series against the Chicago Cubs at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, on April 21.


Bae drew a bases-loaded walk in the second inning with the score tied at 0-0. Two batters later, Conor Jo doubled to center field. After facing Cubs starter Marcus Stroman and getting a favorable 2B-1S count, he took a four-pitch 92.8 mph fastball, but could only manage a grounder to shortstop. End of inning.  토토사이트


Trailing 0-2 in the fifth inning, he struck out with the bases loaded. He calmly picked off three pitches at 0B-2S, but swung at https://cremaspara.com a six-pitch 92.4 mph (148 km/h) outside sinker from Stroman.


Bae struck out in his third at-bat. Still down 0-2 in the seventh, he drew a walk against Stroman with two outs. After back-to-back fouls turned a 3B-1S into a 3B-2S, he didn't respond to a low cutter seven pitches later, but pinch-hitter Carl Mitchell struck out swinging. 


After failing to record a hit in three straight games, Bae's season batting average dropped to 2-for-5 from 2-for-6.


Pittsburgh's 0-4 sweep of the Cubs snapped an eight-game losing streak and dropped them out of third place in the National League Central to the Cubs. They are 34-38 on the season and in fourth place. Starter Johan Oviedo pitched six innings of five-hit, two-run ball, but the offense was silenced, dropping to 7-3 on the season. Multi-hit games from Brian Hayes and Joe were the only bright spots in the loss. 


The Cubs, on the other hand, won their second straight to jump into third place and improve to 35-38. Starter Stroman improved to 9-4 on the season with 토토사이트주소 seven innings of five-hit, one-run ball with five strikeouts, while Ian Happ had a multi-hit game and Tucker Barnhart and former Hanwha man Mike Tuckman homered.

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