Cardenas to Oakland! Pirates lose in Colorado

Short post today as an attempt to fix the PC appears to have worked,but all programs and Firefox bookmarks needed to be reinstalled and I therefore want to keep things short.

One of our favorites is headed to one of our favorite teams as Adrian Cardenas was one of three Phillies to be shipped to Oakland for Joe Blanton yesterday.
Oakland continues to add talented young players and Adrian should do very well there.
Cardenas was hitting over .300 at High A Clearwater.
The other players involved in the deal were former Lakewood pitcher Josh Outman (at AA Reading) and outfielder Matt Spencer also at Clearwater.
Cardenas may have been my favorite visiting player ever and long time readers will remember Adrian giving me a cracked bat of his and signing it for me.
A good trade for the A's and this is going to be one fun team to watch in about two years!

The Pirates lost in Colorado to the Rockies 5-3 as the Rockies rallied to score the final five runs of the game to overcome a early Pittsburgh lead.
Pittsburgh scored three runs in the third as Nate McLouth scored on a wild pitch and Adam LaRoche's double scored Freddy Sanchez and Jason Bay to build the lead,but things were all downhill from there as Paul Maholm could not hold the lead (6-6) as he allowed 2 runs in the 4th and the game winners in the 6th.
I listened to the game on the Colorado network via XM and will do the same tonight,so I don't have the details or opinions from watching.

Pitching Matchup
Pittsburgh:Ian Snell (3-7 5.92 ERA) at Colorado:Glendon Rusch (2-3 6.25 ERA) 9:05

Photo Credits
Cardenas:John Setzler Jr
LaRoche:David Zalubowski-AP Photo