I was talking to a guy at work today about the Pirates and he makes the following comment, "the Pirate's should be 6-0 right now and at the very least 5-1." After he walked I way I thought about how insane he sounded. The Pirates won back to back road series for the first time since August 2007. Yes 2007. How could a 4-2 road trip against two NL Central combatants be a bad thing at all? Did they give away a game against the Cubs by blowing a 3 run lead in the 8th inning? Yes. Did they steal the next game from the Cubs in the top of the 9th with a 75 foot single that drove in 2 runs? Yep. All in all they had an outstanding road trip in which the teams assumed weakness, their starting pitching actually was the shining star. Take today's game for example and my thoughts from my series prediction, "Chris Carpenter on the mound in game 3 is pretty much a no win in my eyes." Well Kevin Correia came out made me eat my words by out dueling Carpenter throwing 7 shutout innings in which he struck out 3 and scattered 5 hits. Correia is now 2-0 with a 1.38 ERA in two starts this season, both being on the road. Correia has been a welcome surprise up to this point and I look forward to him getting the opportunity to pitch in front of the home crowd. A 4-2 road trip is awesome and winning the final game of the series should give the team some good momentum going into the home opener tomorrow. Hopefully the Pirates can keep up their good play and build on the recent success at home from last year when they went 40-41.
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