Saturday, June 4, 2011

conspicuously absent

Cole Hamels threw eight innings of one-hit ball, but was undone by an unfocused sixth, allowing the Pirates to tie the game 1-1 without benefit of a hit. The Pirates won in the 12th, when Danys Baez gave up a go-ahead single to Jose Tabata. The Phillies had just six hits in 12 innings; two were from Cole Hamels and two from Jimmy Rollins. Other starters were conspicuous by their absence. The Pirates had just five hits. All hits in the game were singles. Gosh.

At least Hamels did not get tagged with another hard-luck loss.