Game 136: Pirates 11 Cardinals 0

You know, it was funny having the St. Louis TV feed for this game. The whole first three innings, their announcers talked on and on about how bad Kip Wells has been this year. Like, non-stop. Worse than Pirate fans. You would've thought that Kip Wells was singlehandedly responsible for all the bad stuff that's happened to the Cards this year and that without him in the rotation, the Cards would be running away from the rest of the National League as the best team by far. The thing is, as I noted earlier, Wells hasn't even been that bad the past two months.

He was that bad today, though. He wasn't the usual "I can barely find the strike zone" Kip Wells sucky, he was just getting hit all over the park by just about everyone in the Pirates lineup. Of course, things didn't stop there. Andy Cavazos came in and the Pirates rocked him almost as hard, which made for a pretty boring Labor Day laugher. The interesting part was Snell today. He didn't pitch well, didn't strike a lot of people out, threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters, and put seven donuts up on the board. After all those games this year when he's had seemingly great stuff, only to give up an ill-timed homer and have five runs hung on him, he has a game like today. I guess everything balances itself out eventually.