Game 78: Pirates 7 Blue Jays 6

The Pirates dodged a bullet here, almost literally. They ran out to an early lead with Alex Presley's first Major League homer (a great, quick, easy swing through a bad pitch that Jo-Jo Reyes left up in the zone) and then piled on four more runs in the fourth after the Blue Jays outfield turned a Matt Diaz single into a triple. It's hard not to feel good about a 6-1 lead, even when Kevin Correia was pretty clearly leaving the ball up in the zone all night. So then Correia served up the most predictable home run in history to Jose Bautista to cut the lead to 6-3. Bautista's a beast, though, and Correia settled down and made it through six innings only giving up one run and Andrew McCutchen blasted a hanging Luis Perez curve into the left field seats and at that point, it was pretty hard to not feel good about the 7-4 lead the Buccos had built. Bullpens are volatile, though, no matter how talented, and tonight was Tony Watson's night for some regression. The rookie'...