Pirates 8 Brewers 4

Holy freakin' crap the Pirates won a road series. The last time that happened, we promptly lost lots and lots of games all in a row. We managed to win today because Paul Maholm kept his head after his characteristic terrible start and the offense managed to catch up. The offensive help came from all over (six Pirates had ribbies), and the Pirates never looked back after Jason Bay's game tying homer in the 5th, rallying for two more runs that inning and two in the top of the ninth. The best part about it was that it came against Capuano, who said some vaguely mean things about the Pirates when we steamrolled them in May that were certainly true, but still mean. I don't remember what they were and I can't find them anywhere, but it was almost certainly along the lines of "They aren't that good." He was right, but I still get some perverse satisfaction out of beating the Brewers. I know they're better than us and they're on the right path while we're still wandering around the woods.

Next up: trying to avoid losing 15 of our next 17 games like we did last time we won a road series. We don't have the damn American League waiting for us, so it's probably doable.