(Sports Network) - Lefty Tom Gorzelanny can return to the winning side of the ledger tonight when the Pittsburgh Pirates host the Milwaukee Brewers in the finale of a three-game set at PNC Park.
A former second-round draft pick in 2003, Gorzelanny began the season with just one win in five starts through April 24, before winning consecutive decisions against the New York Mets and Atlanta.
In this wins, he allowed just eight hits and two runs over 12 1/3 innings.
He was touched for seven hits and seven runs in his last time out, however, pitching six innings of the Pirates' 7-4 loss to the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field.
He is 2-0 against the Brewers in six appearances, including five starts, with a 3.06 earned run average in 32 1/3 innings.
Milwaukee's Dave Bush, a Pittsburgh native, can string together a third straight start without a loss.
He picked up his initial win of the season on May 12 against St. Louis, beating the Cardinals, 8-3, with six innings of four-hit, one-run baseball.
He got a no-decision against Boston in his follow-up start, allowing five hits and four earned runs in Milwaukee's 7-6 loss on May 17 at Fenway Park.
Bush is 1-3 lifetime against the Pirates in six games - five starts - with a 5.40 ERA in 30 innings.
On Wednesday, Ben Sheets scattered 11 hits for his second complete game of the season, and Rickie Weeks hit a solo home run to push the Brewers past the Pirates, 4-1.
Sheets (5-1) struck out six in his 123-pitch effort for the Brewers, who have won the first two of this series after a five-game losing streak.
Sheets finished off his 15th career complete game despite only retiring the Pirates in order once -- in the fifth inning.
Weeks scored twice, while Ryan Braun and Corey Hart each went 2-for-5, knocked in a run and scored.
Xavier Nady belted his sixth homer of the year for the Pirates, who have dropped three straight. Nady, Chris Gomez and Adam LaRoche collected a pair of hits apiece, but the Bucs finished 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position.
Ian Snell (2-3) dropped the decision, allowing four runs -- two earned -- on nine hits in six innings.
Milwaukee won 10 of its 16 matchups with the Pirates a year ago, but was just 2-5 in the Steel City. The Brewers are also just 7-12 in Pittsburgh since the start of the 2006 season.
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