Pirates Win 3-2 over Nats

The Pittsburgh Pirates started a 3-game series at home with the Washington Nationals and won 3-2 on a Jose Bautista sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 9th inning. Ian Snell started the game and left after 7 innings down 2-0. The Pirates scored 2 runs in the bottom of the 7th on a Nate McClouth RBI triple(1) and Jose Bautista hit a sacrifice fly to center field that scored McClouth. Then in the bottom of the 9th Ronny Paulino got a single to left field, then was bunted over to second by Jack Wilson, then he moved over to 3rd on a wild pitch while McClouth was batting. Paulino was then substituted by Castillo to pinch run. McClouth and Doumit both walked to load the bases. Jose Bautista then hit his second RBI(29) sacrifice fly of the game to end it. Ryan Langerhans(4) hit the only home run of the game off Ian Snell in the 3rd inning. Snell went 7 IP, with 2 ER on 5 hits, he struck out 5. His ERA is now 2.90. Matt Capps(4-4) pitched the top of the 9th to get the win. The Pirates are now 34-45.