Not good (13-26)

The Pirates are clearly not ready for prime time with the sweep by the Cards. Not much to say on that front. Tabata continues to be great, McCutchen is McCutchen, and Alvarez got a hit. Other than that, nothing good.

So let us go to the minors for some good news. State College followed up a great outing yesterday by Zack Von Rosenberg with a win. It was a 7-6 come back win. Zack Dodson was only so-so in his four innings. No walks three strike outs but 6 runs 5 of which were earned. Trent Stevenson continues to look really good as he went three innings with only one hit a walk and mutliple strike outs. Mel Rojas went hitless, but he is donig pretty well.

Altoona won off of the efforts of Hector Gimenez. How this guy fits into the future of the Pirates is interesting. They just got another catcher in the trade with Arizona, and Sanchez is coming, but Gimenez is looking rather good right now.

Indy lost big. They are not a good team with all of their talent raided by the majors. Charlie Morton started and only gave up one earned run, but showed the same problems he always has: unable to work when the going is tough. He gave up two more unearned runs, and he walked six. That is not good. The loss came when Daniel Moskos struggled again. He has really fallen off at Triple A. His ERA is above 9. I hope he gets it together because next year's pen might need him.

The Maurders were rained out.