Dodgers 7 Pirates 4

Kip Wells wasn't nearly as awful today as he was against the Royals in his first start. He pitched pretty well through three innings, then ran into trouble in the fourth on a bunch of bloopers and tweeners. His velocity was hard to get a read on, as the gun was placing his fastballs in the mid to low 80s, but that's where pretty much everybody's fastballs were in LA, leading me to think there was a problem with the gun in LA this weekend. Or none of our pitchers can throw over 85 mph, which would explain A LOT.

Besides Kip, there wasn't much positive. I'm finding the games exceedingly tough to watch as the Bucs are just kind of drifting around the diamond listlessly waiting for bad things to happen. This is the worst kind of baseball to watch. Not losing baseball, hopeless baseball. I was thinking about making the "This one goes to eleven" joke that Grubb made in the comments, but then I realized that this one is probably going much further than 11. In fact, judging by what the White Sox did to the Cardinals and the fact that the Tigers might be better than the White Sox, I think this one might go to 17.

On the bright side, Charlie has an entertaining post up about his 20 least favorite Pirates of this decade. The question is, of course, how he managed to narrow it down to 20.