Apparently .500 is Cancerous

It looks like us Pirate fans will be living with an eternity of losing. It seems every time the Pirates smell getting back to .500, the bats and arms go completely cold. It happened last night against the Brew crew in Milwaukee. The Brewers were riding a 5 game losing streak coming into the Pittsburgh, that's good. Right? Apparently not. Paul Maholm had a solid start until giving up a 2 run bomb in the 7. That paved the way for 3 more runs, putting the Pirates at a loss 7-2 and now 6.5 games back in the division, at a 21-24 overall mark. Has anyone else started their disappointed sigh of disgust this year? There's still hope, but there's absolutely zero consistency from this club. You know you're pitching is having an awful night when you allow Bill Hall's .207 batting average reach base 4 times. Let's start things off anyways, in the first, former Bucco money bagger Jason Kendall brought in Corey Hart on a fielder's choice. 1-0 Brewers. Kendall's been having a decent season this year in Milwaukee besides his latest batting slump, batting .268 with 14 RBI. In the 5th, the Brewers tacked on their second run after Rickie Weeks reached base on a single and then moved to second after Mike Cameron walked. That allowed Ryan Braun to single to center driving in Weeks. 2-0 Brewers. In the 7th, after Rickie Weeks was hit by a pitch, Mike Cameron brought them both home to make it 4-0 Milwaukee. That would be the end of Maholm's night. The Pirates would motion to bring in Sean Burnett, wrong move mister Russel. Burnett got slapped around in the 8th by allowing 3 hits, one walk, and two runs. 6-0 all Brewers. Milwaukee takced on their final run in the top of the 9th on a Corey Hart solo shot and Jason Bay would pad his stats in a worthless 2 run shot in the bottom half of the inning bringing Nate McClouth with him. Game, 7-2 Brewers.

**Other Bucco News**

-Jose Bautistia was back in the line up after a long lay off to get his batting worked out. Yeah, it almost worked as Bautista went 0-3.

-Ryan Doumit has been said that he expects to be back sooner than thought. He says his thumb is healing faster than normal.

-Jack Wilson is expected to be back with the ball club sometime within the next week said John Russell.