Game 89: Braves 9 Pirates 1

Gee, thanks for coming tonight, guys.

The Pirates decidedly remained on break tonight with Snell giving up homers to lefties like it was 2006, people spacing out in the field, and runs just not really getting scored at all. In the first inning LaRoche made a bad error, the second base umpire made a bad call, and Snell gave up a three run bomb to Brian McCann. It looked for a while like we could keep things close at 3-0, but Snell hit the wall in the sixth and it went from 3-0 to 9-0 before I even knew what happened. There were balls flying out of the park, a piss-poor Grabow sighting, and Tony Armas (?!?) slamming the door on things (his scoreless 2 and 2/3 innings dropped his ERA way down to 8.18).

There wasn't much else to talk about from this one. I personally loved the part where Ronny Paulino singled in Jason Bay and Greg Brown called it a "small victory" for the Pirates, or something to that effect. Umm, nothing about tonight was victorious. We were roundly crushed in no uncertain fashion. Just because we scored a run off of a crappy reliever in the ninth inning doesn't mean we achieved any sort of victory at all tonight. We lost because we played like crap. End of story.