Baseball can be tough to figure sometimes.
The Pirates, for example, bunched together four singles and walk in the first inning but managed only one run because Gary Sheffield threw out two runners at the plate. The Dodgers got four hits and two walks in the third inning and scored five times, with most of the damage coming on Shawn Green's three-run home run off Ramon Martinez, who was making his first start against his former team. The loss was the first for the Pirates in six games at Dodger Stadium and first of the year for Manzanillo. It also marked their first loss on a Wednesday. The Pirates appeared to be headed to a big inning in the first, loading the bases with no outs on Jason Kendall's lead-off walk and singles by Derek Bell and John Vander Wal.