Brewers 12 Pirates 8

As previously noted, this was an uuuuuuuuugly one. Duke had about as little as I've ever seen him take the mound with and the Brewers made him pay for it. He also committed an error AND balked the same runner over. This is one of those nights that I'm sure he'd prefer to forget about just as much as we would. Victor Santos then came in and did an admirable Ryan Vogelsong impersonation, which unfortunately doesn't help much if the ultimate goal is winning games. We managed to make three errors besides Duke's (2 by Castillo) but only one actually resulted in a Brewers run.

The Brewers themselves didn't play particularly well either. Their poor pitching and defense through the game almost allowed the Pirates to crawl back into the game, though us being the Pirates meant we couldn't really take advantage of it. Bay appears close to re-tracking himself after a 4-for-4 night that just missed the cycle by a single. His monstrous two-run homer in the top of the first provided the only brief flash of hope in the game before everything went into the fan. Casey also had a couple hits and Paulino had three with a pair of ribbies, but most of that was all buried by the ugliness of this game.

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