Sean Gentile

If it wasn't for one month last year, he hit over 300 in August.

People would say that Jared Triolo is Key Brian Hayes at the plate.

Triolo so far this year, 118 average, two hits and 17 at-bats, one double, he struck out three times, a absolutely non-competitive at-bat, and also a poor decision by the management to not have Jared Triolo bunt in that situation.

Two on, nobody out, and that's the guy that's up there at the plate.

That's where McCutcheon will be pinch hitting.

But Jared Triolo, aren't you just, isn't it just an unwritten rule?

Where if a pitcher issues back-to-back walks, having trouble finding the zone, O'Hearn could have walked earlier in the at-bat if he just would have tapped his head and signaled for an ABS challenge for a ball that was inside, clearly inside.

Surprised that he didn't challenge it on, I think it was a 3-1 pitch.

Eventually did work a walk.

But for Triolo not to bunt there, for it not to be signaled for Triolo to bunt there, and for Don Kelly to continue to pencil his name in to the middle of this order in the sixth hole, you get excited.

Pirates have something working here.

And then it's Jared freaking Triolo coming up to spoil the fun.

Not even a bunt the runner's over for Spencer Horowitz?

Could set up even a sack fly in that situation.

I know it was a 2-0 game.

Does the approach change if it's a 1-0 game?

It shouldn't.

There are two guys on, one bunt, and you're in scoring position for Horowitz, for Gonzalez, if you get it to Henry Davis.

And I know you're not talking about the 27 Yankees coming up to try to drive in the run, but it still puts you in a better position where I feel like this team has completely left off this season where last year ended.

These are the batting averages for players that returned from a year ago.