Gio Gonzalez’s one big mistake of the afternoon wasn’t even really a bad pitch, but Starling Marte went down for the 2-1 two-seamer at the bottom of the zone that Washington’s left-hander threw him and powered it out to center field in PNC Park for a two-out, two-run HR that hit the E in the PIRATES hedges and accounted for the only runs scored by either team in the Pirates’ 2-0 win over the Nationals in the series finale in Pittsburgh, PA.
GIO in PNC: Pitcher wins are like, whatever, you know, but Gio Gonzalez had been stuck on six of them since May 28th when he took the mound today looking for a curly-W in the third of three with the Pirates in PNC.