Look, the team can't hit, the team's not about to hit, and there's no reason to expect.

Ben Charrington's going to begin now, even lifting a pinky finger to address that.

But as long as you're not going to hit, go right ahead and wipe out one of the better hitting

opponents you're going to face all year.

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Pirates two, Phillies one, probably should say Paul Skeens, two, Phillies one, except that

I'd be leaving out a nice inning and a third save there from Braxton Ashcraft,

who's yet to give up an earned run.

Skeen's going seven and two thirds with, my goodness, this kid, one unearned run, two hits, a walk,

seven strikeouts.

And yeah, all it takes when you get that kind of pitching and a whole lot of

defense behind that pitching is a couple of runs, to win a game or to win the game the night

before, which the pirates also won two to one. Before that, it was five to four for their first

sweep of the season. So rather than talking about,

you know, a couple of singles here or there, Andrew McCutcheon came up with the winner in the

eighth inning, I'm going to instead look at Don Kelly, because Kelly is.

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