The Pittsburgh Pirates scored three runs in the sixth inning and went onto beat the Florida Marlins by the score of 3-2.   With the win, the Pirates improved their record to 3-2 on the season.

Pat Maholm was the winning pitcher for the Pirates as he pitched six inning of four hit ball and only allowed one earned run.  Maholm struck out six batters and only walked one batter.

Tyler Yates, Damaso Marte, John Grabow, and Matt Capps all pitched in relief for the Pirates.  Yates was the only relief pitcher to allow a earne run as he allowed one run in the seventh inning.

Xavier Nady led the Pirates with two RBI while Ryan Doumit had one RBI for the Pirates.  Nate McLouth 19 game hitting streak came to a end in the game as well.

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The Pittsburgh Pirates just couldn’t get the home team advantage going for them on Monday as they lost to the Florida Marlins by a score of 10-4.  With Matt Morris struggling to get his season going, the Pirates failed to take home the win and continue to play bad baseball.

Xavier Nady led the Pirates with two RBI in the game.  Ronny Paulino and Matt Morris both managed to pick up a RBI as well during Monday’s game.

Morris was the opening pitcher for the Pirates throwing for four innings and giving up nine hits, eight runs, and walking one in his third loss of the year.  The Pirates brought in Franquelis Osoria, John Grabow, and Evan Meek to pitch the last five innings of the game.  Osoria gave up two earned runs and five hits in his two innings of action.

Tonight the Pittsburgh Pirates will go up against the Florida Marlins one more time before taking on the St. Louis Cardinals starting on Wednesday.

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The Pittsburgh Pirates had a hard 13-6 loss against the Cubs in Chicago on Sunday putting the Pirates at 7-11 for the year.  The Pirates were pretty much dominated the entire series besides the game on Friday.  The Cubs have now beaten the Pirates all six games so far in 2008.

Zach Duke took the loss for the Pirates on Sunday.  He stood the mound for four innings and gave up right hits and five runs in that small amount of time.  The Pirates brought in Franquelis Osoria, Damaso Marte, and Phil Dumatrait to try and hold the Cubs back but between the three of them they gave up a combined 10 hits and eight more runs.

Ryan Doumit hit two home runs giving him four for the year.  Doug Mientkiewicz, Nate McLouth, Freddy Sanchez, Ryan Doumit, and Ronny Paulino all drove in a RBI as well. 

The Pirates now welcome the Marlins to Pittsburgh for a 2 game series starting on Monday night.

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The Pittsburgh Pirates got behind early and were never able to come back against the Los Angeles Dodgers as the Dodgers won 8-1.  Bad starting pitching and no hitting really hurt the Pirates on Wednesday night.  I don’t think Pirates are going to turn things around anytime soon either.

Paul Maholm took the loss for the Pirates and his record dropped to 0-2.  Maholm pitched five innings and gave up six runs (four earned) and 11 hits.  Franquelis Osoria pitched two innings in relief of Maholm and he gave up another two earned runs.  Damaso Marte came in to pitch scoreless ninth inniing to finish the game.

Adam LaRoche was the only Pirates player to record an RBI.  LaRoche had a RBI single in the sixth inning.

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Matt Morris once again got hammered and the Pittsburgh Pirates once again lost, this time to the Los Angeles Dodgers by the score of 11-2.  Morris was only able to last 4.2 innings as he gave up seven hits and six earned runs.  As a starting pitcher, you can’t put your team in a big hole like that if you want the team to win.   Hopefully Morris will figure out what is going wrong and fix it before his next start.

Phil Dumatrait pitched 1.1 innings in relief of Morris and gave two hits an two earned runs.  Evan Meek pitched the final two innings and gave up four hits and two earned runs.  I don’t know how long Meek will stay on the Pirates roster, he has sucked it up almost everytime he has been called on.

Freddy Sanchez and Ronny Paulino had an RBI each for the Pirtes.  The entire Pirates offense struggled against the Dodgers pitching staff and could never get anything going.

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Nate McLouth hit a three run homer in the top of the 9th inning as the Pittsburgh Pirates came from behind to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-4.  That is a very big win for the Pirates, especially as it came on the road and will hopefully give the team some momentum on their road trip.

With the home run, McLouth has now recorded a hit on all 13 games this season.

Jose Bautista got the Pirates on the scoreboard in the 2nd inning when he hit a two-run home run.  Xavier Nady then doubled in the 6th inning and scored another run.  Those two swings of the bat and McLouth’s swing were all the Pirates needed.

Tyler Yates picked up the win as he pitched in relief.  Yates record is now 2-0 on the season.  Matt Capps picked up his fourth save of the season as he shut the door on the Dodgers in the 9th inning.

Starting pitcher Zach Duke pitched six innings as he allowed eight hits and four runs (three were earned), and two walks.  It wasn’t too bad of a performance by Duke, he just needs to keep the ball down and keep this hitters off balance.

With the win, the Pirates are now a game over .500 as their record stands at 7-6.

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The Pittsburg Pirates lost to the Chicago Cubs once again and this time it was by the score of 7-3.  The Pirates record now stands at 3-6 after being swept by the Cubs in the three game series.

The Pirates did have a 3-1 lead after the first inning, but after that they couldn’t get anything going against the Cubs pitchers.  Freddy Sanchez, Xavier Nady, and Jose Bautista all had one RBI each for the Pirates.

Starting pitcher Matt Morris did pitch seven innings but he allowed 11 hits and seven runs.  Only four of the seven runs were earned however as the two Pirates errors really hurt.  Evan Meek pitched final two innings of the game without allowing a run.

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The Pittsburgh Pirates battled back in the 9th and 14th innings, but were not able to do it in the 15th inning as the Chicago Cubs went onto win 6-4.  It was a pretty bad game for he Pirates up until the 8th inning as they were only able to get one hit off of Cubs starter Ryan Dempster.  From the 8th inning on though, the Pirates hit the ball a little better.

Going into the bottom of the 9th the Pirates were down one run, and then Jason Bay took a Kerry Wood fastball deep and over the all for a game tieying home run.  The teams would not score again until the 14th inning when the Pirates were down by two runs and Adam LaRoche hit a two-run home run to tie the game once again.  But in the 15th inning, the Pirates were not able to answer the Cubs two runs in the top of the inning and lost the ballgame 6-4.

The Pirates battled but they just didn’t have enough.  Anytime you only have one hit going into the 8th inning, more then likely you are going to lose the game.  The Pirates got lucky that the even made it to extra innings and had a chance to win.

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You have to give credit to the Pirates who battled back from a 7-0 deficit before losing the game 10-8 to the Chicago Cubs.  The Pirates ran out of pitchers and had to have Evan Meek in the ballgame in the 12th inning, and he pretty much walked in the winning runs.

I’m not going to stress about the 12 inning with Meek in the ballgame, the coaching staff didn’t have any other choices really.  I still like how hard they played and battled today, I think they can learn from this game and become a better team down the road.

The Pirates and Cubs will have an off day tomorrow, and then play on Wednesday night.  We will see how the Pirates respond after tomorrows off day.

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The Pittsburgh Pirates lost a heart breaking game to the Florida Marlins on Friday evening as Mike Jacobs hit a walk off homerun for the Marlins.  The Pirates once again played in a one run ballgame and came up just short.

Chris Gomez‘s two-run single and Nate McLouth‘s run-scoring double gave Pittsburgh’s a three-run second inning but the Marlins quickly tied it up at three in the bottom half of the inning.  In the fourth inning, Ryan Doumit connected for his first homerun and put the Pirates up 4-3 but that didnt’ last long as the Marlins once again tied the game in the bottom half of the inning.  There wasn’t any other scoring in the game until the Jacob’s walk off homerun.

Matt Morris didn’t pitch too badly as he gave up four earned runs on eight hits.  He kept the team in the ballgame, and that is all you can ask for by your starting pitcher.  Franquelis Osoria took the lose for the Pirates.

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