End 1 -- scoreless

posted by David Cloninger, 6/01/2009 06:13:00 PM

Jay Brown takes his warmup pitches and prepares. The lanky right-hander is going to have to be spot-on today.

Trent Whitehead steps in to begin the Pirates' first. First pitch is swung on and fouled back to the screen.

Low curve for strike two, swinging. 0-2 on Whitehead, Brown looks in, bounces his next pitch up there. 1-2.

Brown throws outside corner, Whitehead just gets a piece of it. Ball two next. Next pitch swung on and streaked down the line but Nick Ebert has it and outruns Whitehead to the bag. One down.

Brown got the out but those pitches, to put it kindly, would have a hard time being called strikes by a blind man. Ryan Wood steps in and let's hope that's just first-batter jitters.

2-2 on Wood after a swing and a miss on that looping curve. Brown goes outside heat, gets the corner, Wood is outta there on a caught-looking K. Two down.

Stephen Batts up. He gives it a ride but it's going to die on the track as DeAngelo Mack takes a few steps and catches it. Brown out of the inning 1-2-3 on 13 pitches, but is going to have to hit the zone a little better to get out of this game unscathed.

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