Tom Gorzelanny gave up just 1 run over seven innings and Jason Bay homered to continue his hot hitting to lead the Pirates to a 4-1 win over San Diego at PNC Park.
Gorzelanny continued his solid season with his outing tonight,which included working his way out of a bases loaded jam in the 1st inning without allowing a run.
Xavier Nady singled home Jose Bautista in the 1st to give Pittsburgh the early lead.Bautista scored his second run of the game on a Freddy Sanchez single in the 3rd.
Bay hit his 8th homer of the year in the 6th and scored the final run on a Adam LaRoche single in the 8th.
LaRoche continues his hitting improvement by having 3 hits tonight.
Gorzelanny improves his record to 6-3,while Gas Can Torres pitched the 9th for his 12th save.
The Series continues tomorrow at 7;05.
Paul Maholm for the Steel City vs Ex-Pirate farmhand Chris Young for the Padres.
Bullpen Notes
Battlin Bob got his vacation time and the Southern Baseball tour is on for August!
Congrats Bob!
The tour will stop in 4 cities in 3 days and we will see 8 teams play.
South Atlantic League games
Lake County (Indians) at ASHEVILLE NC (Rockies)
Columbus (Devil Rays) at HICKORY NC (Pirates)
Rome (Braves) at GREENSBORO NC (Marlins)
Carolina League Games
Myrtle Beach (Braves) at LYNCHBURG VA (Pirates).
Going to be a great time for all and we will cover the entire trip here after our return.
The Cleveland Cavaliers are pounding the Pistons all over the North Shore tonight.
The game is not final,but is decided.
Series tied at 2-2.
Al Gore on Keith Olbermann's show tonight and tomorrow as Gore does publicity of his new
book-Assault on reason.Click here for the link for tonight's portion of the show.
Gore addresses the rumors of his possibly entering the 2008 Presidential race.
The uncertainty of the former Vice-Presidental's run is what has kept me from an endorsement here already.
Once he makes up his mind either way,our endorsement will be quickly posted here.
I do not really want to get too in depth into Cindy Sheehan's withdrawal from public life,but I did want to address one point that I believe has some legitimacy.
Her quote -"Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives."
No matter what opinion you have on the war,this country needs to have more civil discourse on this topic and appreciate what is really important at this time.
I realize this could smack of hypocrisy when my top story was Pittsburgh 4 San Diego 1 and there could be some validity to that,but not many blogs like this touch any varied issues at all.
It is a sad commentary on our country when more people voted for someone on a glorified talent show than for the leader of our country.
Opinions of Ms.Sheehan on a personal basis are irrelevant,when one considers the issues at hand.
Just something to ponder.
Back tomorrow.
Photo Credit
Al Gore-Wireimage.com-Lester Cohen
Pittsburgh-AP Photo-Keith Srakocic
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