JAL’s Why Don’t You Do Right Morning Links

Why Don’t You Do Right Peggy Lee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE73giFnLBs

1 MLB Transactions

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/transactions

2-MLB Trade Rumors-Pirates

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/pittsburgh_pirates/

3 Baseball Reference

https://www.baseball-reference.com

4 Retrosheet

http://www.retrosheet.org

5 Rumbunter

Pittsburgh Pirates Minors: Notes on West Virginia Power

https://rumbunter.com/2018/08/17/pittsburgh-pirates-minors-notes-west-virginia-power/

6 Green Weenie

Bucs Hit Into Record Seven DPs, Lose Another 1-0 Game To Cubs

https://oldbucs.blogspot.com/2018/08/bucs-hit-into-record-seven-dps-lose.html

7 Pirates Breakdown

Kyle Crick And Different Pitching Metrics

http://thesportsdaily.com/2018/08/17/pittsburgh-pirates-kyle-crick-metrics-pbd11/

8 MLB

Major League Baseball should hand out these crazy awards every year

https://www.mlb.com/cut4/weird-mlb-player-awards-that-should-exist/c-290589494

9 Newsday

Turn! Turn! Turn! Cubs match double-play record vs Bucs

https://www.newsday.com/sports/cubs-turn-record-tying-7-double-plays-edge-pirates-1-0-1.20537532

10 Pittsburgh Sports Castle</b>

Flavell: It’s Time To Let The Young Guys Shine For The Pirates

https://pittsburghsportscastle.com/2018/08/17/flavell-its-time-to-let-the-young-guys-shine-for-the-pirates/

11 The Point of Pittsburgh

Things We Lost In The Fire

http://www.thepointofpittsburgh.com/things-we-lost-in-the-fire/

12 SB Nation

These are the 4 reasons why José Ureña hit Ronald Acuña Jr. with the first pitch

https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2018/8/16/17697088/ronald-acuna-braves-marlins-you-get-a-dinger-and-you-get-a-dinger

13 CBS Sports

> MLB scores, highlights, live team updates, news: A's stun Astros; NL wild card getting tight

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-scores-highlights-live-team-updates-news-phillies-nola-adds-to-cy-young-resume/

14 Fangraphs

Kyle Schwarber Is Who We Thought He Was

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/kyle-schwarber-is-who-we-thought-he-was/

15 Baseball Prospectus</b>

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Cold Takes: The Free Will of Free Agents

https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/42113/cold-takes-the-free-will-of-free-agents/

16 Blog Predictions

http://pbc-asylum.blogspot.com/2018/03/2018-pbc-asylum-blog-prediction-contest.html’

17 Previous Game Box Score

http://stats.washingtonpost.com/mlb/boxscore.asp?final=true&gamecode=380817123

18 Two Question Foo Survey

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZCCQPCR

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Final 1 2 3   4 5 6   7 8 9   R H E Chi Cubs 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 Pittsburgh 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 x 3 8 2

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  W: J. Musgrove (5-7)   L: T. Chatwood (4-6)   S: F. Vázquez (27)

7:05 PM ET, August 18, 2018 PNC Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania  Attendance: 35,100

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Chicago Cubs Player AB R H RBI TB BB K AVG OBP SLG B. Zobrist, RF-2B 4 1 2 1 5 0 0 .309 .391 .469 J. Heyward, CF-RF 4 0 1 0 1 0 0 .280 .343 .405 D. Bote, 3B 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 .303 .390 .483 A. Rizzo, 1B 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 .264 .360 .441 J. Báez, 2B-SS 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 .287 .319 .561 K. Schwarber, LF 4 0 1 0 1 0 3 .244 .361 .464 W. Contreras, C 4 0 1 0 1 0 1 .272 .361 .427 T. Chatwood, P 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .160 .192 .160   R. Rosario, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000   T. La Stella, PH 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 .280 .354 .318   J. Chávez, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - -   I. Happ, PH-CF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .242 .362 .422 A. Russell, SS 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 .257 .325 .354   B. Kintzler, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - -   J. De La Rosa, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .500 .000 Totals 34 1 6 1 9 0 10 - - -

Pittsburgh Pirates Player AB R H RBI TB BB K AVG OBP SLG C. Dickerson, LF 3 0 3 0 4 1 0 .307 .339 .486 S. Marte, CF 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 .276 .319 .463 G. Polanco, RF 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 .238 .330 .473 J. Bell, 1B 3 1 1 0 1 1 1 .265 .348 .409 F. Cervelli, C 2 1 1 0 1 2 0 .256 .390 .459 A. Frazier, 2B 4 1 2 1 3 0 2 .281 .346 .429   F. Vázquez, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 C. Moran, 3B 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 .267 .332 .385 A. Hechavarria, SS 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 .333 .350 .556 J. Musgrove, P 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 .238 .238 .286   J. Luplow, PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .178 .260 .356   K. Crick, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - -   J. Harrison, 2B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .258 .300 .364 Totals 29 3 8 3 10 4 6 - - -

2B: Pit 2, C. Dickerson (26), A. Frazier (13).

HR: ChC 1, B. Zobrist (9).

HR Detail: ChC, B. Zobrist (Inning: 3 , 2 Out, 0 on) off J. Musgrove.

Scoring Position: ChC - 0 for 5.Pit - 1 for 6.

SF: ChC 0,  Pit 1, A. Hechavarria (1).

Chicago Cubs Player IP H R ER BB K HR BFP Pit B-S ERA OpBA T. Chatwood, (L 4-6) 2.0 2 3 3 3 0 0 10 37 16 - 21 5.22 .247 R. Rosario 2.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 6 21 7 - 14 2.83 .248 J. Chávez 2.0 3 0 0 0 3 0 9 35 10 - 25 1.56 .206 B. Kintzler 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 4 17 6 - 11 3.56 .257 J. De La Rosa 1.0 1 0 0 1 1 0 5 18 7 - 11 4.28 .276

Pittsburgh Pirates Player IP H R ER BB K HR BFP Pit B-S ERA OpBA J. Musgrove, (W 5-7) 7.0 5 1 1 0 7 1 27 87 25 - 62 3.31 .248 K. Crick, (Hld ) 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 4 11 2 - 9 2.27 .206 F. Vázquez, (S 27) 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 12 2 - 10 2.82 .221

Errors: Pit 2, J. Musgrove (1), A. Frazier (6).

Double Plays: ChC 2, (Russell to J.Báez to Rizzo; Russell to J.Báez to Rizzo). Pit 1, (Hechavarria to Frazier to Bell).

Umpires: HP--Nauert, 1B--Fairchild, 2B--Barry, 3B--Torres.