Astros Beat Ohlendort On The One Bad Pitch He Threw

Ohlendorf has gotten better since we last saw him. He set the Astros down in order 1,2,3 for the first 3 innings and retired Bourn to start the 4th when Matsui, singled on a push bunt down the first base line, deftly avoiding the tag. Lance flied out, then Ohlendorf made his ONLY bad pitch - he hung a slider to Carlos and the ball ended up right about on the tracks. Moehler, who gave up 7 H, 2 BB, 1 IBB (to face the pitcher) immediately coughed it up, but managed to hold on until the end of the 6th without giving up any more runs, and he owes the Pirates 3rd base coach a refreshing beverage of his choice for his boneheaded decision to wave runners in, then throw up the stop sign well after Doumit had rounded third and milledge was 3 steps behind him - Doumit was tagged out in a rundown. Fulchino got 3 quick outs on 9 pitches, then Ohlendorf, who had thrown only 72 pitches, came back out for the 7th. Not sure why, but he was very very tentative with his pitches, first with Lance, who he walked on a 3-2 count, then with Carlos, who also walked, except that the ump, who had a varying strike zone, called Ball 4 a strike. Carlos juuuuust missed a FB down the middle and flew out. Then Miggy Tejada was up and it looked like a sure #28, but he golfed an inside FB at the knees into the Crawford Boxes to drive home the winning runs. Hawkins came in to pitch the 8th - you can't have Fulchino pitching the 8th, you know. Hawk looks TIRED - gave up 2 singles, 2 groundouts and a popup and it took him 20 pitches. I hope he isn't hurt and doing the macho shuffle. Pence got his little self caught stealing AGAIN. And he decided to run on a brand new pitcher before even checking out his timing. Time to give him the stop sign. Running fast does not make a person a good base stealer... Rubber game tomorrow with Paul Maholm vs Felipe Paulino, who has thrown 2 pretty good starts with 2 losses to show for it since he was re-inserted into the starting rotation. Hopefully, he can get a little run support this time.