The Pirates got this one started on the right note when Josh Harrison who got the start in right-field tonight hit a solo home-run to give the Pirates a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first. The bats stayed silent all the way until the bottom of the fifth when Josh Harrison scored again on a Casey McGehee sac-fly to center-field, which followed a beautiful double steal by Harrison and McCutchen to put runners on second and third with just one out.
Another fantastic piece of baseball came in the bottom of the sixth when the Pirates perfectly executed a hit and run. Pedro Alvarez was on first and he went on the pitch and sure enough Clint Barmes had a beautiful inside out swing just driving the ball to right-center field easily scoring Alvarez all the way from first. This was the second small ball thing the Pirates did well in this game, the first one being the double steal in the fifth. Barmes eventually came around to score.
Denard Span homered home the Twins only two runs of the game off of the struggling of late Juan Cruz in the seventh. Andrew McCutchen answered right back in the bottom of the inning with his own two run bomb, his twelfth of the year.
All and all this was a pretty good win for the Pirates considering that they took down the Twins ace Scott Diamond. In my opinion anytime you can win when Kevin Correia pitches you have done yourself a huge favor. Correia was surprisingly good tonight though going 5.1 IP, 4H, 0ER, 1BB, 2SO, if we could get this every night from Correia that would be awesome, but we won't because well he's Kevin Correia.
Bucs will look to take another one tomorrow when Erik Bedard will try to redeem himself from last start as he will face Francisco Liriano (1-7, 6.24). The Bucs are of course home again get there if you can, lets show this team a little support, they are in second place after all.
No comments:
Post a Comment