Erik Bedard made the start and didn’t do a great job. He gave up those four runs in the second and threw a ton of pitches, but he made it through five innings and limited the damage after the rough second. He struck out four in his five innings of work.
The offense would battle back. They played two runs in the fourth on back to back to back doubles from Josh Harrison, Andrew McCutchen, and Pedro Alvarez. A questionable bunt call from Neil Walker put a damper on things and the Pirates would strand Alvarez. Two more runs were contributed by Michael McKenry, who hit a two run homer in the seventh. The winning run came in the eighth after a routine foul ball of Walker’s bat was dropped in centerfield, going for a three base error. Clint Barmes would hit a sacrifice fly to plate the winning run.
Joel Hanrahan closed it out, while the combination of Chris Resop, Tony Watson, and Jared Hughes pitched three scoreless innings.
Huge win for the Bucs, proving that they have at least a little bit of fire power in those bats. It’s especially nice to win a game that was started by a Johan Santana.