Game 142: Pirates 10 Cubs 5

Playing spoiler is only fun when you knock a team out of the playoffs that you don't like. Like, say, the only team in the division that finished worse than you last year, then went out and spent a third of a billion dollars to try and correct that. Today, the Pirates knocked the Cubs out of first place with a 10-5 win. They got to Steve Trachsel early and Matt Morris did his Matt Morris thing and that's enough to win on days when we score 10 runs. More interesting stuff coming soon.