Pirates 7 Cardinals 0

Strangely enough, the Pirates swept the Cardinals at PNC today with a relatively easy 7-0 win and the sun and moon are still in the sky following their same relative patterns, and near as I can tell hell hasn't frozen over.

All kidding aside, the Pirates put together their third consective good baseball game against the Cards today. Maholm pitched fairly well and got himself out of several jams to put up his 6 and 2/3rd shutout innings. Torres bailed him out of some trouble in the 7th and Marte and Capps shut the door over the next two innings. Bay and Randa provided enough offense for the pitching in the second inning with their back to back solo homers off of Marquis that landed in nearly the exact same same spot in the left field bleachers. Lanny was actually in the middle of providing valuable insight when Bay went deep as he was busy telling us that Marquis was tied for the NL lead in homers given up. The rest of the offense was provided by Chris Duffy (?) and his 3 RBIs as well as a 2 RBI double from Freddy (who added another hit to bring his average to .346). Duffy also had another good game with two more hits, a walk, and another stolen base. The Pirates are now 15-13 since the All-Star break and 31-28 at home. That would seem to be pretty good, minus their 30-60 record before the break and their 14-45 record on the road.

And if something apocalytic happens overnight, well, blame the Pirates.