Pirates 5 Reds 4

Like I previously said, we abandoned this one once the rain started to fall and we decided that we'd already seen Duke and everyone had had enough of Kip Wells on the year. I turned the game off when we fell behind 4-1 in the third, deciding I'd had enough of depressing baseball for the night. The Pirates thusly responded with a 3 runs in the final 2 innings rally to pull out a 5-4 win (for their only lead on the marathon night). The highlight of the night (besides the walk-off win) was Jack Wilson pulling his average all the way up to .257 with his 6-for-8 night (matching the Reds Felipe Lopez who started 6-for-6 before we actually got him out a couple times). Unlike the first game, the bullpen held the line (mostly because Mac(k) held most of our better relievers for the second game, seriously, how do you take a close game and throw Meadows, White and Mesa out there with Gonzalez and Torres on the bench?) with four scoreless innings from Vogelsong, Grabow, and Torres (who got the win).

And oh yeah, it was All-Star hat night. You all know how I feel about that. "OK, the category is 'Words that describe the 2006 All-Star logo. The top 6 answers are on the board. Mr. Montgomery, you go first. 'Ugly?' Do we have ugly? Survey says--- UGLY!!! NUMBER ONE ANSWER!!!"