Nailed by the Nats

The Pittsburgh Pirates scored a run in the first,but a three run homer by Washington's Michael Morse erased the lead in the third inning and never looked back in a 6-3 Nationals win.
Kevin Correia allowed five of the runs in a four and two thirds innings outing and fell to 3-2 on the season.
The series ends today with a makeup of Friday's rainout.

Pitching Matchup
Washington:John Lannan (2-1 3.43 ERA) at Pittsburgh:Paul Maholm (0-3 4.30 ERA) 7:05

Pirate Hooks

1) The only high point of Kevin Correia's day was his three up three down first inning.
Other than that Correia was in trouble in every inning....

2) Nice job by Daniel McCutchen,who has yet to allow a run in his six appearances thus far and picked Danny Espinoza off first base to boot.
I would not say that righthanders picking runners off first base is rare,but it happens far less than by southpaws....

3) Andrew McCutchen was gunned down at the plate by Jayson Werth for the final out of the game.
I thought McCutchen looked safe,but a bigger question is why McCutchen was sent at all?
Considering the strong arm of Werth and a three run deficit,it made little sense to me to even risk the play...

4) Clint Hurdle must have been impressed with Jeff Karstens on Saturday as the Pirates boss has given Karstens a chance for more starts until Ross Ohlendorf returns from injury.
Not sure how this plays out long term,but I am not outraged with it.

5) The sparse crowd of under 10,000 booed Adam LaRoche consistently,who then responded with a long homer.
Had he done more of that for the Pirates,the crowd reaction towards him might have been different...

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