Brandon Webb got back to his winning ways that had eluded him for a short time a couple of weeks ago. He shut down the Pittsburgh Pirates in the teams first meeting of the year, allowing just one run on three hits over seven innings. The Diamondbacks won the game by a score of 3-1.
The Diamondbacks had six hits, spread over six players. Each of the top five hitters in the Arizona lineup had one. Chris Young hit his first triple of the year. Orlando Hudson then brought Young in with a sacrifice fly to left.
Stephen Drew brought home the first run of the game in the second with a clutch two out double that brought in Jeff Salazar. Drew was hitting in the leadoff spot instead of his usual two hole.
The Pirates got their lone run in the sixth against Webb. Freddy Sanchez singled and Jason Bay followed with a double that brought him in. Sanchez had two hits for the Pirates.
Ian Snell took the loss for the Pirates despite striking out nine over just five innings. He gave up five hits and two runs, just one earned. He also walked three.
Brandon Lyon picked up his 13th save of the year.
June 9th, 2008 at 6:10 am
As I am a baseball lover, I try to watch games whenever I have time. But, for me, and without doubt for thousands of other fans all over the world, I love the Pittsburgh Pirates and I do my best to attend their games though we notice that Pirates tickets got a little pricy and hard to be found especially when we talk about some hot games. The Pittsburgh Pirates tickets are a little pricy but this should not prevent us from fallowing our favourite team and support it, and this is what means to be a good fan.