Pirates 8 Reds 4

Well, that felt good. More accurately, any win tonight would feel good. The offense needed this. Like I said earlier, jury's still out on Mr. Perez. Mackowiak had a good night, so did Bay and the D-Train. The only thing that bothered me was that we used less pitchers than the Reds did, and their starter lasted 2 and 2/3. A bit of overmanaging in the midst of a blowout, if you ask me. And we probably shouldn't panic about Mike Gonzalez's 2 runs in the 9th, he hadn't given any up at all since April 13th (that's not a typo). Glad to see him give some up in the meaningless 9th tonight. We need to take three out of four in this series to get back to .500 in our 20 games quest, so I say let's do it.

20 Games in 20 Days: 3-4