game 1 of the pirates double header

[Wally Mo Pena]

box score so far after 1:

R. Freel 2B 0-1
F. Lopez SS 1-1
A. Dunn LF 0-0
W. Pena CF 0-1
S. Casey 1B 0-0
A. Kearns RF 0-0
J. LaRue C 0-0
E. Encarnacion 3B 0-0
B. Claussen P 0-0

N. McLouth CF 0-1
J. Wilson SS 0-1
J. Bay LF 0-1
C. Wilson RF 0-0
B. Eldred 1B 0-0
H. Cota C 0-0
F. Sanchez 2B 0-0
J. Bautista 3B 0-0
Z. Duke P 0-0

claussen got through the first in 7 pitches, all strikes.

[Wally Mo Pena]

Kearns doubled but is stranded, EdE struck out on 3 pitches. after 1.5 no score.

[Wally Mo Pena]

claussen beans c. wilson, but picks him off.

[Wally Mo Pena]

a double, but no damage. after 2, no score.

[Wally Mo Pena]

claussen with an infield single down the 3rd base line. That makes four hits on the year.

[Wally Mo Pena]

reds load the bases with no outs, dunn walks to knock one in, pena goes down, and casey gidp as per usual. after 2.5, 1 - 0 reds.

[Wally Mo Pena]

claussen gets K's 2 and 3 on his way to a 1-2-3 inning. 1-0 reds after 3.

[Wally Mo Pena]

reds go down meekly with two k's, still 1-0 after 3.5

[Wally Mo Pena]

claussen gets out of a jam after a leadoff double. Both young lefties are getting their strikeouts, claussen and duke are both at 4 after 4, though duke has been a little wild and claussen has no walks.

still 1-0

[Geki Ace]

Claussen has a two game hitting streak. He's a machine, I tell you.

[Wally Mo Pena]

whoa, i guess the pirates are worried about their young lefty because he's done for the day after 4 innings of 1 run (though sloppy) ball.

in comes a righty Medows with Claussen leading off.

Duke is on the hook for his first Major League loss.

[Geki Ace]

75 pitches for him and he hasn't pitched in a game in a few weeks. It makes sense to be careful about it, though I don't know that I'd want to rely on five innings from my bullpen in a doubleheader.

[Wally Mo Pena]

why don't the reds ever make their pitchers take batting practice. they are dead last in the NL in batting average at .109 and only Milton's two bombs have gotten them into second to last in OPS.

[Wally Mo Pena]

nice job by dunn to get the rbi, marty is really giving it to dunn about hitting with risp. I agree that dunn needs to be more productive, but there's no doubt in my mind that dunn would have better numbers if the lineups on this team had been made better since day 1.

[Wally Mo Pena]

2-0 reds after 4.5