Game 77: Pirates 7 Marlins 5

I can't believe we won this game. I am literally in shock. This is the type of game that we lose over and over and over again. We had two three-run leads (3-0, 5-2), but Tracy pulled Van Benschoten after 81 pitches and four rocky innings and brought in Wayback Wasdin. Wayback somehow only gave up one run in his two innings (he got hit hard), then Masumi Kuwata came in and gave up a monster gopher ball to Hanley Ramirez. Suddenly it's a 5-4 game with no outs in the seventh. Vomit check time. We're giving up passed balls, getting thrown out on the bases, basically doing all the same old shit we always do and I had this one chalked up in the L column. LaRoche and Bay went down like puppies in the tenth and I had a nightmare about who would blow the game in the bottom of the inning. Then some beautiful and awesome things happened. One of those things has a large hooked nose and the other has eyes as black as the devil's soul. Yes, Xavier Nay and Ryan Doumit hit back to back homers and Matt Capps nailed the save down and the Pirates won 7-5. If you would've asked me for odds on the Pirates winning when JVB exited after four innings with a 5-2 lead, I probably would've said less than 25%. So here's to the less than 25% of life that sometimes works out.