Pirates losing streak reaches 7,Arnesen beats Legends

The Pirates wasted a excellent outing from Tom Gorzelanny and lost their seventh game in a row to the Houston Astros and their ace Roy Oswalt 2-1.
Carlos Lee's two run homer in the first gave the Astros all the runs that they would need,although Gorzelanny's efforts over the rest of the game kept the Pirates with a chance to win.
Gorzelanny falls to 9-5 with the tough luck loss.
Jason Bay's 4th inning single scored Freddy Sanchez for the Pirates only run.
New Pirate Cesar Izturis did not make his debut as expected,instead Matt Kata played 3rd base.
Izturis is expected to get the majority of playing time at 3rd for the injured Jose Bautista and then slide over to short,if Jack Wilson gets dealt away.
Tonight's lineup was a pretty weak looking one to face one of the best starters in the game.
McLouth,Kata,Paulino,Wilson and the pitcher is 5 pretty easy outs to face.
That lineup wont beat average hurlers too often let alone a pitcher of the caliber of Roy Oswalt.
The Bucs will try to snap the streak again tomorrow night vs the Astros.

The Hagerstown Suns used two late inning homers from Leonard Davis to break open a 1-1 game after 6 and a half to defeat Lexington 7-1.
Our favorite Sun Erik Arnesen pitched the seventh and earned his 4th victory of the year.
Talked to Erik at the end of the game to offer congratulations as he signed Rachel's hat.
Always nice to see good guys succeed.
Hagerstown avoided a sweep of the 4 game series with the win and they now go on a ten game road trip,that starts in Hickory, before returning home on the 30th to tackle visiting Augusta.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats hung tough at BC Place vs the Lions last night,but fell short and lost 22-18.
The Cats sent Lion 2nd string QB Buck Pierce from the game in the 3rd quarter,but Jarious Jackson was able to led the Lions to the eventual game winning scores.
Jason Maas went the distance at QB and played fairly well,throwing a td and a interception,but the star for the Tabbies was running back Jesse Lumsden,who ran for 158 yards and added another 68 yds in receiving.
The Cats next game is in Winnipeg vs the Blue Bombers on the 27th.

Pitching Matchup
Houston:Wandy Rodriguez (6-8) at Pittsburgh:Paul Maholm (5-12) 7:15

Photo Credits
Oswalt-AP Photo-Gene Puskar
Lumsden-Hamilton Spectator