Wild late nineties baseball is the best baseball. The Pirates shelled Charlie Nagy to lead 7-2 after four, with two-run homers by Al Martin and Kevin Young leading the way. Tom Candiotti settled it down, bringing his knuckleball out of the bullpen for a three K, one walk inning. Then the Tribe jumped right back in it with four in the sixth; Scott Sauerbeck inherited two on with no out, and yielded consecutive homers to the two lefties he was brought in to face (Jim Thome and David Justice). But Young’s second homer was a three-run shot off Steve Reed to extend the lead to 10-6, and Pirate catcher Chris Tremie made it 11-6 with his first big league RBI on his only hit in 14 AB this season. The teams traded runs in the seventh, with Martin hitting his second homer of the game. Cleveland got three in the eighth, but stranded the tying runs at second and third, and the Pirates tacked on a run of their own in the eighth. The Indians mounted a two-out ninth inning rally, but for the second game in a row on this blog a Kenny Lofton flyout ended the game, but this time he represented the tying run.
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