There was a game today?

In all the excitement about the draft don't miss an important series against the D-Backs, who are the hottest team in baseball. And the Pirates had a great come from behind win tonight. The Pirates managed three runs off of the D-Back starter Haren, but it was only on three hits, and really McCutchen was out at home on a sac fly. Really bad call by the ump. Then after Correia ended up giving up four runs and the Pirates trailed 3 to 4. Meek is having problems again. Velocity down for the second straight outing. He did try to go two innings and in the second one ran into a mess of trouble including giving up a solo home run. Resop bailed him out of more. Before Meek was another great inning by Moskos. Then the first D-Back reliever was just awful. He threw lots of strikes (except for a semi-intential walk to McCutchen), and all his pitches were up. That is a dangerous combo. The Pirates hit him hard. First a Garrett Jones (pinch hitting) got a double. Then Tabata doubled home Jones. Single by Harrison to tie the game. Harrison's hit was a two strike pitch after a failed bunt attempt. Paul got another single, then the walk to McCutchen to load the bases, and a quick 3-0 count to Overbay. Overbay was taking all the way and it was a strike. Then the 3-1 was down for what he had been throwing all night, but it was not low enough and Overbay laced a double to the center field wall clearing the bases. That was it for that guy, and then Hanrahan nailed it down.

The Pirates called up Tony Watson and Designated for Assignment Jose Ascino. Good move. It is time to see what Watson can do. i am a firm believer in the 2 lefty bullpen, and Ascino has no real future with the team. He is one of the guys that had to be moved off of the 40 man anyway to make room for the flood of guys coming this off season. Might as well move him now and see what Tony can do.

The Pirates play is important between now and August 15th. Some of these draft picks have never seen the Pirates have a winning season. They need to be convinced that the Pirates are almost there and are a real winner now.