The Pirates took game one of their three game set with the Tigers by a score of 4-1 giving almost 38,000 people at PNC park something to cheer about as they left the game tonight. This was a good win for the Bucs, they got ahead early against a decent American League team and they never let the lead go.
A.J. Burnett took the ball for Pirates tonight and earned his seventh straight win. I have never been a fan of wins as a stat because I think it is very meaningless, but if you get seven straight wins then your doing something right. Burnett's finished up with 6IP, 2H, 0R, 3BB, 4SO, this puts his ERA down to 3.24 which is just awesome.
The Pirates got two of their runs in the very first inning when they started with three straight hits coming from Alex Presley, Neil Walker, and of course Andrew McCutchen. Garret Jones also hit into a productive double-play to score Neil Walker from third putting the Pirates on top 2-0. The next two runs were kind of a joke when A.J. Burnett went to sacrifice bunt and Doug Fister overthrew the base scoring the speedy (sarcasm) Rod Barajas all the way from first with a fantastic head first slide at home.
Hughes gave up a meaningless Detroit run in the top of the seventh shrinking his teams lead to three runs. Hanrahan had the save in the ninth and Andrew McCutchen went three for four and his one out was a line-drive right at Detroit's shortstop.
Pirates play at a special 4:05 start tomorrow and Brad Lincoln (3-2, 3.82) will go up against Max Scherzer (6-4, 5.17), get to the game if you can lets make this summer exciting. Oh and go #VoteCutch.
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