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Jeff Karstens looked good over seven innings, allowing just two runs and seven hits. He surrendered three singles, three doubles and a walk in needing just 87 pitches to get that deep.
The Pirates jumped on Wandy Rodriguez immediately, utilizing a walk and four singles to plate three runs in the first.
Eric Hinske had three [...]

What’s worse:
Getting beaten down by a pitcher who hadn’t gone the distance in nine years or
Giving up four hits to a player who had only three career knocks?
Well, they both happened tonight in Pittsburgh. Brian Moehler tossed a complete game – his first since 8-8-00 to get his second win of the year. He entered [...]

There were some complaints from Pirate hitters about the strike zone in yesterday’s loss to the Cubs, specifically with called strikes away from left-handed hitters. Back to Brooks Baseball to see if their opinions were legitimate. Here are five left-handed at-bats against Carlos Zambrano that resulted in a strikeout, excluding pitcher Zach Duke.
D. Young, first [...]

I love Carlos Zambrano. I enjoy watching people who are passionate about their work. Unfortunately, that passion went a bit overboard in the 7th. With Nyjer Morgan on courtesy of a single and a two base error, Z uncorked a pitch in the dirt. Morgan broke for home. Close play and…. Safe. Off went Carlos [...]

After Ian Snell’s dismal start last night, I have seen some fans complaining that he still is not pitching inside. Since there was an important hockey contest keeping me from watching most of the game, I figured I would head over to Brooks Baseball and see if this were true.
Here are two graphs showing Snell’s [...]

Sean Marshall allowed just one run on four hits over six innings as the game was called after a rain delay that lasted a little over an hour.
The Cubs scored single runs in each of the first three innings – all with two gone – and added three runs in the fifth for the [...]

Freddy Sanchez had six hits in six trips to the plate, knocked in three and scored four times to pace a season high 18 hit attack. Andy LaRoche and Jason Jaramillo each had three hits. Andy LaRoche drove in two runs and Nate McLouth contributed the go ahead RBI with a two run homer off [...]

I just returned from Wrigley Field, where the Pirates defeated the Cubs in a wild game that seemed to drag on for at least 14 hours. In the ninth inning, Geovany Soto smoked a line drive off the arm of Matt Capps, sending Capps tumbling toward the dugout in pain. I hate to [...]

The Pirates compiled 12 hits and just one run through the first seven innings off of Mark Buehrle. The game changed after he left. Octavio Dotel surrendered a solo homer to Eric Hinske in the 8th. The following inning, Bobby Jenks retired the first two hitters and then gave up a game tying homer to [...]