Sunday afternoon

The Bucs and Padres close out their season series with the Pirates' last road game of 2006 (which can only be a good thing). The Padres have a chance to stretch their NL West lead and they'll send Clay Hensley to the mound. Hensley will be the second Clay to pitch for the Padres this weekend, though he's got the more normal spelling (opposed to Cla Meredith). The Pirates seem to be amenable to the Padres stretching that lead, as they'll send Marty McLeary to the mound. Bay is back in the lineup after missing last night with a stomach thing and Freddy will get the day off. Trevor Hoffman will go for the all-time save record if the Padres can manage to not be ahead by more than three in the ninth inning (which I wouldn't count on). Most of Pittsburgh is probably way too deep into a drunken Steelers depression to care about this one.