Offense Comes Through Again

The Buccos won their 4th in a row behind the offense once again.

Karstens (6 innings, 4 Runs, 2 K's) was staked to a 5 run lead behind a 3 run first, and a 2 run Andy LaRoche home-run (wtf?); before Adam Dunn answered with his own bomb in the 4th inning. Karstens gave up 3 runs in the 6th before getting lifted with the lead 5-4.

Burnett blew the lead in the 9th after a wild pitch allowed Nick Johnson to score after he tripled to lead off the inning.
LaRoche doubled to bring in 2 runs in the top half of the 10th and Brandon Moss singled to bring in a 3rd run of the inning to secure the lead and the game.
Gorzo shut the door with a perfect 1 1/3 innings including the final out of the 9th when he K'd Willie Harris to end the Nats Rally.

Notes

• The LaRoche's went 4-7 and brought in half of the Pirates Runs.
• Brandon Moss is finally finding his swing, going 2-5 with 3 RBI's
• Gorzo looked really good.. His slider had some bite that we had not seen for about 2 years.
• Jack followed his 4-4 effort, going 0-4.
• The Nats defense is awful.. Pretty embarassing actually
  
• Maholm Tonight=5th in a row. Mark it down