Saturday, July 14, 2007

Pirates lose Heartbreaker 5-4 to Braves

After an hour and twelve minute rain delay in Atlanta, the Braves won the second game of the series on a walk-off RBI single by Jeff Francouer off of Shawn Chacon(4-2). Another good Pirate starter got hit hard by the Braves, Tom Gorzelannyn got the start and Andruw Jones(17) got a two run homer off him in a 3 run 1st, he did ended up calming down, giving up 4 earned runs(3.24) on 6 hits over 6 innings for a no-decision. If not a 4 run inning by the Pirates in the 7th inning right before the rain delay Gorzo probably would have got the loss, but Ryan Doumit(7) hit a 3-run homer to tie the game at 4-4, then the long rain delay. Shawn Chacon got in trouble in both the 8th and 9th innings loading the bases both times. He was able to get out of the inning in the 8th but couldn't get it done in the 9th. The Bucs are now 40-50.

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