The Owensboro Oilers won their Thursday night game with the visiting Tradewater Pirates. The final score was 2 to 1 in a game with play on both sides that was every bit as impressive as that kind of score suggests. The dueling showcases of the evening were the starting pitchers, Ben Wright for the Oilers and Calyn Young of the Pirates. Together, they combined to hold both offenses scoreless until the 8th inning. As the innings passed zero for zero the game became a beacon for their talents, and an omen that the game had to turn in one direction or another sooner or later. Impressive as they are, matching zeroes are not eternal in baseball.  The Pirates finally broke on to the scoreboard in the top of the 8th inning. George Kalousek singled to lead off the inning. He was sacrifice bunted to second base. A sacrifice fly moved him to third. Kalousek scored on a RBI single by David Zorn. Zorn tried stretching his hit into a double and was tagged out, but the damage -- as they say -- was done.  The Oilers hopes in the game came down to the bottom of the 9th inning -- needing that one run back just to extend the game. Drew Barrett led off the inning and reached on an error. He was sacrifice bunted over to second base. A strikeout later, Eric Barnes became the first of three batters at the plate representing Owensboro's very last chance. Barnes was hit by a pitch. Gabriel Pena followed and -- after a protracted battle with Young -- blasted a ball that rebounded fair off the mound and then back into the foul area along the third base line. By the time it could be wrangled the bases were loaded. Luis Mila faced a 3-2 count from Young before finally tagging the 2-RBI single to drive in both Barrett and Barnes -- winning the game for the Oilers.  In merest terms of record, the winner was Wright for the Oilers and the loss taken by Young for the Pirates. However, neither designation should take anything away from two great performances Wright (9 IP, 1R, 1BB, 5 K) and Young (8.67 IP, 2R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 5 K). It's people with talent like theirs doing things like that that keep us all watching and loving this game.