Pirates rolling and Miller back. (6-10)

The Pirates are undefeated in July and Quentin Miller is back and pitched 2 perfect innings with one strike out for GCL Pirates, Marte will start on Saturday in GCL and Walker will start in the bigs on Sat. More importantly Lincoln, McCutchen, and Ohlendorf all got their first wins this year. Since this will be the nucleus of next year's staff, this is great news. All pitched great and went deep into the game.

The Pirates acheived the series victory over the hated Phils when McCutchen pitched 5.1 of great baseball and Meek killed any hope of a comeback as the Phils were shut out. Dotel got a save. Tonight Ohlendorf went 7 shut out innings, and Hanrahan and Dotel pitched a perfect 8 and 9. The two runs for the Pirates were by McCutchen and Doumit, and they were unearned.

The back end of the Pirate bull pen is solid. Meek, Hanrahan, and Dotel are excellent. In fact, trade rumors are floating for Dotel, especially with the Marlins who know we are interested in at least John Raynor. Still, I hope we get more than that in return. I do expect Dotel to go. Javier Lopez has been a fairly solid guy, especially good when they put him as an exclusive lefty-lefty guy. Since the bullpen market this year is slow, he may go as well.