Pirates 5 Marlins 3

Tonight's game was played in an on and off deluge that almost ended the game early with the Marlins ahead. Instead, it lightened up just enough to let two unlikely heroes came through to help the Pirates to a come from behind win. First up we had a Mighty Mouse McLouth (I can't help it, I'm a big alitteration fan) homer to tie the game up in the eighth, then the Bucs rallied again in the ninth with the go ahead hit coming off of the bat of pinch hitter Jeromy Burnitz (who was only 5-for-14 with runners on third and less than two outs coming into the AB), before a Jack Wilson RBI double put things away.

Beyond the comeback thing, Ian Snell had a pretty decent start only giving up 6 hits and a walk in six innings, though he did give up three runs. Oh, and Jason Bay destroyed a ball to account for the rest of the Bucco runs that I haven't described yet. It probably went at least a million feet. Well, maybe 440 feet, but since numbers are infinite, a million and 440 are practically the same. But anyways, the Pirates continued with their stretch of pretty good baseball (albiet against bad teams) since the All-Star break, which is always nice to see. It was a really bizarre game to watch on TV because I think there were less 10,000 people in the stands. It really reminded me of some of the early April games at Three Rivers in the late '90s.