that's a great story. I wonder how the pitcher feelks like in a day like that. Pedro Martinez also pitched a perfect game thru 9 innings and came out with a loss.

it's funny that the Pirates are so irrelevant now because that's a franchise with one of the most interesting stories in baseball. they have more WS titles than most teams, were the first team to win a WS on a walk-off HR, had the great "We are family" team, and some of the greatest players of all time like Willie Stargell and Roberto Clemente and one of the greatest story that always fascinated me with Steve Blass. also, I recently found out that they were the only team to score 10 runs in the first inning and lose the game!