SAN DIEGO -- Yawn.
Look, no offense to all those who undoubtedly were delighted, or at least relieved, that Charlie Morton and the Pirates put the Padres and all of Petco Park to sleep, 5-2, Saturday night, bouncing back dutifully from that drama-laden loss to the previous night.
They, and specifically Morton with a second strong start since rejoining the roster -- seven innings, one earned run and 16 ground-ball outs -- did the job and did it well.
But man, was it dull.
And I mean that, of course, in the best way imaginable.
"He looked like a headache," Andrew McCutchen was saying of his view of Morton from center field. "That's what he looked like. He was throwing, people were swinging, and it was a ground ball. There weren't too many hard-hit balls."
What's an outfielder to do on such a night?
"Huh. I just take a peek at the grass and wonder why they had that concert that they had," Cutch said referring to the recent Rolling Stones show here that scorched a huge swath of the outfield. "That grass is dead. And it smells."
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