Practically everything GW likes to see, he saw tonight.The fire was sickly again (10 Ks), but two of the six hits left the yard.
cCutch quit trying to force everything, took a shift away to the opposite field and easily cleared the 375' mark.Then Garrett Jones dropped one within the correct field pole, helped by a strong right-to-left breeze at Coors.
Ronny Cedeno had a clutch two-out triple to plate Pedro, and two-out Bucco lightning is our favorite weather forecast.More importantly, he made a couple of nifty plays, one from the mess and the other up the middle.
Jose Tabata crashed into the fence to get out a double.The scoreboard read zero errors for the Pirates, a big factor in the zero runs Colorado scored.
Not as big a factor, of course, as the Pittsburgh pitching.Kevin Correia shook off his final start and went 6-2/3 frames giving up 3 hits, a walk, and whiffing four.Jose Veras, Chris Resop and Joel Hanrahan kept the zeroes comin', giving up two hits and K'ing five without a pass over 2-1/3 frames.
For Hanny, it was save #8 in 8 opportunities.And this may be the best Pirate bullpen since 2007, with adequate depth to cover Evan Meek's slow start.
Paul Maholm faces Jason Hammel in tomorrow's game.
-- The Bucs got their first road shutout of Colorado tonight; it took them 74 games to finally goose egg the Rox at Coors/Mile High.
-- Kevin Correia became the first Pirate pitcher to win 4 games in April since Jeff Suppan in 2003.Before that, the final four-game winners were Zane Smith and Randy Tomlin in 1992.
-- The suits have finally got some power arms to man the rear of the bullpen.Jose Veras has 17 K's in 10-1/3 innings, Chris Resop 15 in 14-1/3, Evan Meek 8 in 8, and Joel Hanrahan 12 in 14 frames.Heck, even the bridge guys are piling up the K's - Joe Beimel has 5 in 4-2/3 innings and Mike Crotta 7 in 10.
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