June 7, 2012

Pirates Beat the Best

Thursday turned into the night that ate closers in Cincinnati. Joel Hanrahan blew a save for the Pirates in the bottom of the ninth as Ryan Ludwick‘s second home run of the game tied the score at four. In the tenth, however, Aroldis Chapman allowed doubles to the first two batters for his first earned run allowed on the season and Pittsburgh wins 5-4. The Pirates take two out of three in the series against the NL Central leaders and sit just two games out of first place in the division. If they can beat Chapman, they should be able to beat anyone. 🙂

Alex Presley went 2 for 5 and is 5 for 14 since his recall with four runs scored in three games.

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