Pirates drop an "uggla" one

The Pirates fell to the Florida Marlins last night 9-3 .
Dan Uggla hit 2 homers off Pirate pitching to lead a 4 homer Marlin barrage.
Paul Malholm gave up 3 of the 4 homers,one each to Uggla,Hanley Ramirez and Jeremy Hermida.
Uggla's other home was off Marty McLeary,who was in mop-up duty.
Malholm pitched well for 5 innings,before a horrid 5th.
Looked to me that when Malholm (a Low ball pitcher) starts to get the ball high into the zone,he gets hammered.
His stuff is not strong enough to be able to get away with those types of mistakes.
Sergio Mitre got his first win in over a year for the Marlins.
Our Bucs are a special kind of team,as this is the second time this season that Pittsburgh has had a pitcher do this.
Russ Ortiz achieved a similar deal last month.

Bullpen Notes

Matt Peterson moved up from AA Altoona to AAA Indianapolis.
Good to see Ray Searage finally straightened him out.
Oh,boy.

John Van Benschoten won the International League pitcher of the week award.
John was 3-0 with a 0.34 ERA last week!
Looks ready for a shot in Pittsburgh to me.

Forgot a "on the signing front' update for the Delmarva series.
A few Shorebirds and 2 more Tim Foli cards.
The big catch was Jose Cardenal.
Jose is currently the Nationals roving base running instructor and played for many MLB teams,most notably the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians.

The Hagerstown Suns start a 10 day road trip,so some down blog time.
Get ready for promised stuff that I have not gotten done yet,Like the Devils GM post for one..
If you have any ideas,write and let me know.

Buckeye Heisman winner Archie Griffin gave the graduation speech at Ashland University Monday.
There is one day that I wish I was at my home away from home.

And finally,thanks to the feedback that I got from some of you on the Mike Ramlow-Alex Periard piece.
I enjoyed doing it and thanks for the compliments on it.
Alex is the starting pitcher tomorrow night and usually Mike is paired with him,I will try let you know how they did.

Photo Credits-
Dan Uggla-AP Photo-Gene Puskar
JVB-Bill Gentry