Pirates win again 7-2 over Nationals

The Bucs prevailed over the Nats 7-2 Saturday night and have won 4 of their last 5 games. A big six run second inning got the Pirates most of their offense. Jack Wilson(22) and Freddy Sanchez(28) both had 2-RBI singles and Adam Laroche smacked a 2-RBI double(20) in the inning. Laroche added his 10th home-run in the 5th inning for the last of his 3 RBI's(45). Tom Gorzelanny(8-4) got the win after he went 7.1 innings 2 runs on 5 hits while striking out six batters. He gave up a RBI single in the first inning to Dmitri Young but after getting the 6 runs in the second he cruised to the victory. He also gave up a solo homer to Ronnie Belliard(3) in the sixth. Masumi Kuwata, a 37-yr old Japanese league star, got the last 5 outs for the Pirates. Kuwata has turned out to be pretty good, he has a 2.53 ERA. The Pirates are getting hot at the right time, in my opinion their last chance to turn it around is now, they start a series with Milwaukee,the division leader, on Monday. If they wanna have a respectful year they need to put together a winning streak now. They are 35-45 and 12 games behind Milwaukee who are 47-33.