Scores:
Tuesday: 10-7 Loss at St. Louis. Bad pitching, bad D, bad umpire? Box score.
Wednesday: 12-3 Loss at St. Louis. Worst game of the year. Box score.
Thursday: 6-3 Win at St. Louis. New team record for K’s. Box score.
Season Record: 11-14, 3rd place in NL Central, 5 games back
All the pitching the Bucs didn’t get in the first two games of the series was used in the finale. Erik Bedard struck out 11 (including seven in a row) in five innings and the bullpen added another six, setting a new team record for a nine inning game. Pedro Alvarez continued to set the world on fire with two more homers amoing his six hits. Andrew McCutchen missed one game and had to leave another one early with the flu.
Combined Box
| Pittsburgh | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | LOB | AVG |
| Presley, LF | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0.071 |
| Tabata, RF | 13 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0.308 |
| Alvarez, 3B | 11 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.545 |
| Walker, 2B | 11 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0.273 |
| Jones, G, 1B | 10 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0.400 |
| Barmes, SS | 8 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.375 |
| McLouth, CF | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0.125 |
| McKenry, C | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0.000 |
| Navarro, SS | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.400 |
| McCutchen, A, CF | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.200 |
| Barajas, C | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.200 |
| Harrison, PH-2B | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.667 |
| McGehee, 1B | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.500 |
| Bedard, P | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 |
| Burnett, AJ, P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.000 |
| Morton, P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.000 |
| 106 | 16 | 29 | 16 | 6 | 21 | 32 | 0.274 |
Batting
Doubles (7): Barajas (3), Barmes 3 (6), Tabata (4), Jones (4), McGehee (4)
Triples (1): McCutchen (1)
HomeRuns (2): Tabata (1), Alvarez 2 (7)
BaseRunning
SB: Tabata (4)
Fielding
Errors: Jones (1), Barmes 2 (6), Alvarez 2 (5), Barajas (1)
Double Plays: (Barmes-Walker-Jones), (Jones), (Harrison-Navarro-Jones)
| Pittsburgh | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | ERA | WHIP |
| Bedard (W, 2-4) | 5.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 3.60 | 1.40 |
| Morton (L, 1-2) | 4.3 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 10.38 | 2.31 |
| Lincoln | 3.3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | 1.20 |
| Hughes, J (H, 2) | 3.0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3.00 | 1.00 |
| Burnett (L, 1-2) | 2.7 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 40.50 | 4.88 |
| Grilli (H, 5) | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| Cruz, J (H, 3) | 2.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 2.50 |
| Hanrahan | 1.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9.00 | 3.00 |
| Resop | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Watson | 0.7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 13.50 | 3.00 |
| 25.0 | 37 | 25 | 22 | 14 | 32 | 5 | 7.92 | 2.04 |
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