Box Score
I was not expecting a 1-0 game. With Marco Estrada starting I though the Brewers were going to have to put up at least five runs to secure a victory. But all they needed was a solo home run form Yuni Betancourt.
The real story of the game was the top of the 9th. The inning got off to a rough start when Nyjer Morgan took a horrible route to Xavier Paul's eventual triple. In a perfect world Carlos Gomez would have been in center field and it would have been nothing more than a long, loud out. In reality the Pirates had a runner on third an nobody out. But Axford being Axford and the Pirates being the Pirates, Xavier Paul stayed at first base after a pair of ground-outs and a strikeout/2-3 putout to end the game. If nothing else this game demonstrated how sometimes the most tense, action packed baseball games end with a score of 1-0.
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