Astros 7 Pirates 4

Against my better judgement I went down tonight to watch Gorzelanny's debut and I have to say, he wasn't bad. He threw a ton of pitches and had some control trouble, but hit 94 on the gun at times and handled himself quite well, I thought, for a rookie starting against a team in a pennant race in late September. Brad Eldred bashed a home run off of Andy Pettite tonight that looked like it went almost to the steps and eslators right past Willie Stargell's gate (I'm not kidding). All things told, we didn't really play too badly tonight and if a couple balls dropped in and we didn't have Rick White we might've been able to pull this one out. Pettite pitched pretty well though he only went 5 and 1/3 (on 100 pitches) but he held our own (not quite like we did against the Rocket, but still). Craig Wilson also had a good night and hit a couple hard doubles. Matt Capps also made his second appearence and made everyone in the park smile when he gave Rick White a taste of his own medicine by letting one of his inherited runners score. All in all it wasn't a bad game, but it's simply not easy to win when you give up 4 RBIs to Brad Ausmus.