Pirates 3 Cubs 2
Oh, mother of all unexpected victories! Rich Hill has been dominant this year. When the Cubs gave him a 2-0 lead in the second inning, I assumed this one was over. I shut the radio off and got out the old History of Science reader and tried to do some studying with the gamecast open on my computer. In a bizarre twist of things, the Pirates actually had other plans. Ryan Doumit, the current Baseball HayZeus of Pittsburgh, got things rolling in the fourth with a ground rule double, then was singled in by the current Baseball Goat of Pittsburgh, Adam LaRoche. He's got his average solidly over .100 right now, which sounds like a joke but really isn't because he was hitting .098 just a week ago. Anyways, that cut the lead in half. The rest of the job was done by a Ronnie Paulino double with Jose Bautista on first. Two runs off of Rich Hill? That's like 100 on a mortal pitcher! That set the stage for Jason Bay to come through with some late inning heroics for the second time this