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 WASHINGTON (AP) - Salomon Torres lost command of his split-finger fastball at an inopportune time. Cristian Guzman scored the game-winning run on a ninth-inning wild pitch by Torres and the Nationals ended a three-game losing streak with a 6-5 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday night.
"I could have been out of the inning. ... It didn't go my way," Torres said. "I kept aggressive. I kept the ball down. There's nothing I could have done differently. Unfortunately, that split-finger fastball got a little bit of sink towards our dugout — and you know what happened."
Torres (0-3), who was replaced as the Pirates closer by Matt Capps after blowing his fifth save Sunday, had problems with the splitter from the start. Though he struck out Felipe Lopez on a 3-2 pitch to open the ninth, two of Torres' first four pitches to Lopez — both split-finger offerings — bounced a foot in front of the plate for balls.
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