Myers: Back in the win column
(c) Associated Press
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If someone had told you before the season that Brett Myers wouldn't win his fourth game until September, you would have assumed he'd spent half the year or more on the disabled list. Yet Myers has stayed healthy and made every start but one in 2011 yet only got win number four Tuesday night in a 4-1 masterpiece over the Pirates.
Last season's 14-game winner has been the victim of bad luck and bad pitching, similar to the struggles that J.A. Happ has experienced this season and evidence why it's been such a rough year for Houston.
Myers gave up just four hits over 7-2/3rds innings in subduing the Bucs in chilly, damp PNC Park. One of those hits was a homer by Ryan Doumit, the league-leading 31st longball given up by Myers this year.
Humberto Quintero provided the run support with an RBI double in the second and a two-run single in the ninth that gave Mark Melancon some breathing room to pick up his 17th save. Jimmy Paredes had three hits to pace Houston's attack.
J.A. Happ (5-15) will make his third start since returning from Oklahoma City on Wednesday night when he squares off against fellow lefty Brian Burres (1-0) in a 6:05 Central contest.
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