Game 4: Cardinals 2 Pirates 1

What a weird game. The Pirates lead 1-0 for most of it without the benefit of a hit, then got a hit, then gave up two runs and lost. Getting one-hit is never a good thing and Ramon Vazquez getting that one hit is probably only going to encourage John Russell to keep Andy LaRoche on the bench more often. I think that's a bad thing, but I'll go in to that a little bit later. Instead, I want to look at Ross Ohlendorf's start. On the surface, I wasn't terribly impressed with what I saw from the Gamecast this afternoon. His velocity didn't seem all that impressive (it sat right around 90 or 91), and an almost every pitch was a fastball or sinker. The distinction between a fastball and a sinker can be a pretty fine one, but Pitch FX says that 70 of his 90 pitches was either one or the other and I don't see a whole lot of difference in break between the two pitches. That's not to say that there's not a difference; it's hard to tell exactly what those num...