Game 91: Braves 5 Pirates 1

Well, that closes out a nicely lackluster series. I thought maybe when Freddy Sanchez hit a homer in the second AB of the game off of Buddy Carlyle that maybe our fortunes would be different than in the first two games of the series. I should've known better. You can add Carlyle to the list of crappy pitchers that have dominated us this year, a list that seems to grow and grow by the week.

Today was a pretty typical Pirate loss. The Braves scored on a wild pitch/passed ball in which Doumit and Maholm either got mixed up or Doumit just failed poorly in his predesignated job of "catching" the ball, they scored on a Jose Castillo throwing error, they scored on Salomon Torres, who's return didn't look much than before he left, but none of it mattered because we didn't score after Freddy's homer. Carlyle cruised through eight innings on 91 pitches, only allowing four hits and striking out four to go with no walks. Bob Wickman closed out the game on six pitches and the Pirates hightailed it to the airport, probably eager to pretend like this weekend never happened. Too bad that's not really an option.