The Pirates missed chance after chance and finally the Cardinals made them pay in a 9-4 loss.
Pittsburgh loaded the bases three times in the 1st 4 innings and came away with 3 runs.
Zach Duke had another rough outing allowing 6 runs and 11 hits in just 5 innings.
Duke and Maholm are really struggling and I do not think that it is a coincidence that they are the two finesse throwers of the staff.
I think finesse guys need to have extra offense backing them up and this team sure is not the team to do that.
That said,it would take a lot of offense to back their efforts thus far.
Bucco RBI's went to Xavier Nady,Jason Bay and Jose Bautista.
The best thing for Pittsburgh fans was Ryan Doumit throwing out 2 Cardinals runners at home from right field.
Doumit may be questioned on his defensive skills in right,but his arm sure cannot questioned for sure.
The series continues tonight in the Gateway city at 8;05.
Ian Snell for the Buccos vs former Pirate Kip Wells for the birds.
Bullpen Notes
Portland won the Greg Oden lottery last night.
My main knock on the NBA Lottery is this-Either have a complete lottery or none at all.
This in between stuff does not work for me.
Nice to see Mike Tomlin has brought such upstanding people to the Steelers.
One of his assistants forwarded porn Emails to the NFL office accidently.
Smooth move,Genius.
The Cleveland Cavaliers attempt to get a split of road games in the Eastern Conference Finals tonight.
If I watch this-I will cover it.
Kudos to XM Radio.After their outages on Monday and Tuesday,They offered a pro rated rebate for the 2 days of problems.
87 cents is not much,but it is good customer relations.
And kudos to my wonderful Wife-She pulled an autographed Daryl Jones card out of 1 pack of Bowman yesterday.
Great job and thank you Cherie!
Back later or tomorrow.
Photo Credits
Baseball=AP Photo-Jeff Roberson
Daryl Jones-Topps Cards
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