The Pirates lost today to the Padres 5-3 marking their second consecutive loss.
The bats were almost completely silent tonight at the hand of Padres starter Kevin Correia who moved to 7-6 on the season. The top 4 in the Pirates order went a combine 1-12 with 3 walks, the lone hit coming from Jose Tabata. Tabata also had and rbi when he grounded out allowing Ronny Cedeno to score from third. The only player with a multi-hit game was Pedro Alvarez who went 2-4 bring him to .259 on the season. It's nice to see that even in between power surges that Alvarez is putting balls in play and getting some base hits. Lastings Milledge provided a 2 rbi single which was his only hit of the game. Cedeno went 1-4 and the last hit to round things off was a solid line drive single by Paul Maholm.
Maholm coming off his tremendous start against the Astros in which he pitched a complete game shut out was a bit rusty in the second inning and that cost him. However, who knows what would have happened if Tabata wouldn't have misplayed the first hit of the inning, a triple, and caught the ball to make the first out. Maholm settled pitching 6 innings allowing 4 runs, all earned while striking out and walking two batters. Brendan Donnelly was next in line to come into the game and there aren't any words to describe his performance. Donnelly threw a total of 14 pitches in the 7th inning. ONE for a strike! Donnelly walked the bases loaded and was held without further damage when pulled for DJ Carrasco. Carrasco was able to limit the damage to run one which was definitely needed after Donnelly's botched performance. Sean Gallagher finished off the game against his old team pitching two innings with out allowing a hit striking out and walking two batters.
The loss drops the Pirates to 34-62 (23-24 at home) and 4-4 post all-star break.
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