Game 76: Pirates 3 Marlins 2

Sorry for the lack of posts yesterday afternoon/last night. My internet went down and the cable went down with it, meaning our family did things like "go for bike rides" and "listen to the Pirates on the radio" and I was pretty stranded from getting anything posted. So I'm still here and I'm still blogging, though I don't know how long the internet connection here will hold out for.

So... Paul Maholm was pretty good last night, eh? Three hits and a walk over 7 and 2/3rds is an impressive outing, even if he did manage to somehow give up two runs to the Marlins on that meager allowance. Then an amazing thing happened. The bullpen came into the game with a tenuous lead (one run) and got four whole outs without letting anyone on base or anyone score. That's pretty freaking good and not very Pirate-like. Kind of nice to see, what can I say.

The offense wasn't very good against Willis, but it didn't need to be, either. They got their three runs early (the third run was a Jack Wilson homer?!?) and that was really all that was necessary behind Maholm for the night. It's nice to see the Pirates, you know, win after that dreadful trip out west. At least interleague play is over.