Erik Bedard continued his poor pitching with his tenth loss of the season. He failed to pitch four innings and allowed five runs (four earned). Chris Resop had one of his better outings of the year setting down all seven batters he faced and struck out three. Juan Cruz allowed a run and Jared Hughes threw two scoreless innings.
The Pirates had a 3-0 lead in the third inning before Erik Bedard allowed a five run inning in the top of the fourth. Andrew McCutchen had three hits including two RBIs and Neil Walker had a RBI double off the left field wall as well. Casey McGehee and Pedro Alvarez each hit solo home runs.
The Pirates will play tomorrow at 4:05 and look to even up the series, with a great pitching match up between James McDonald and Ryan Vogelsong.