“We had been lacking that,” Pirates manager Derek Shelton said. The nine runs were the most scored by the Pirates (22-34), who had eight three times this season. Gregory Polanco had an RBI single in the third and, after his bases-clearing double led the Pirates to a 5-3 win on Thursday night, Jacob Stallings added a two-run single in the sixth. The Pirate got all nine runs from their top five hitters. ![]() Yeah, that’s pretty good protection with those two hitting behind me.” “That’s kind of my job, just get on base for them and if we can continue that, I think we’ve got a lot better chance of winning ballgames and the opportunity to put up a lot of runs. “Especially with them swinging the way they are now,” Frazier said. Frazier went 2 for 3 and scored three runs, as Hayes went 2 for 4 with a homer and three RBIs and Reynolds 2 for 5 with a run-scoring double. The trio combined to drive in six runs as the Pirates pounded the Miami Marlins, 9-2, Friday night before a season-high 8,044 at PNC Park. There was hope that the return of Ke’Bryan Hayes to the lineup would reverse that trend, providing a boost to the top of the batting order between leadoff man Adam Frazier and No. This formulaic machinery progressively drags things into the mediocre until the banal ending, with the hero walking away having tasted his revenge.For the first two months of the season, the storyline for the Pittsburgh Pirates was an anemic offense that struggled to produce runs and ranked among baseball’s worst in several categories. Its the easiest thing in the world to poke fun at these smarmy types. This problem of stereotype is compounded by the introduction of the anchor and lawyer. But he actually plays none of these things, just an automatic device, played by a rank mugger. This is a fellow that avoids the camera, avoids people, acts as the center of intelligence, the detective, the spine of the film. The primary problem is the Burns character, Warsaw. But in Herzfeld's hands, it turns to goo, because he lards it up with so many formulaic devices. This could be the sort of stuff that would make up for Ritchie's fluff problem. With this alone, Soderburgh could have done really well. Farmiga is lovely, playing much the same as her "Autumn" role. But watching an actor act like an actor is a treat, especially when we have two guys who turn into actors and a slew of TeeVee people who are in front of cameras, but who don't know the moves. (He practices his proposal as if it were to be filmed - shades of "Taxi Driver" - plus his intended is reporter!) He uses a different set of moves than the visitors, and which are natural to the man, and are already common enough to be self-parodied. ![]() He plays someone who lives to be seen by a camera. Plus we have deNiro in a role that is more apt than any of his recent ones. These guys really move like East Europeans (like Liam in 'Schindler'), which starts out with a set of movements that is rare in film, and adds an unusual logic with a visual metaphor. What this film has is a very clever self-referential notion: another film about films, but one that directly indicts its own audience. Some films get extra points from me for ambition.
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