Game 70: Pirates 5 Mariners 3

And the nice little run the Pirates are on against bad American League teams continues for one more night. There was good stuff all around tonight, the Pirates hitters drew 4 walks off of Miguel Batista in 5 and 1/3 innings, then two more off of Sean Green over the next 2 and 2/3. That kind of patience tends to pay off. Gorzelanny got a lead early and held onto it for seven innings, then Tracy played musical relievers with some success (Richie Sexson's monster homer off of Jonah Bayliss was the only run allowed by the pen tonight) to get the win. Freddy and Bay had two hits apiece and every starter other than Nady and Wilson had one. Shawn Chacon closed out the save with two straight strikeouts after Damaso Marte started the ninth.

Of course, there were also downsides on this one. Gorzelanny started the seventh inning after 100 pitches and threw 123 tonight. This is really starting to add up. We struck out 11 times, which is puzzling because of how much we walked. Jonah Bayliss really sucks. Ronnie Paulino tagged up on a flyball with two outs.