Cincy 9 Pirates 1

Now that was a beating. Ian Snell is continuing to run out of gas right before our eyes. Last night he went six and walked three with only 5 Ks, giving up 4 runs on all homers, with two coming to Javier Valentin. Then, the nightmarish 7th inning happened with Adam Dunn greeting Brian Rogers and Juan Perez showing us why it's never a good idea to be excited about 27 year old middle relievers. Josh Sharpless eventually put the fire out, but by then it was 9-1. Even more disturbing than the giving up 9 runs was the scoring of one against Kyle freaking Lohse. Lohse struck out 6 guys in his 7 innings and our only homer came on a Doumit homer (which tied the game at 1 and was nice to see). Last night also brought us the Major League debut of Carlos Maldanado, who singled in his first ever at-bat. Yipee?