Scores:
Tuesday: 7-2 Win vs Minnesota. Solid effort all around. Box score.
Wednesday: 2-1 Loss vs Minnesota. No support for Bedard. Box score.
Thursday: 9-1 Win vs Minnesota. 3 HR back up a CG from JMac. Box score.
Season Record: 36-32, 2nd place in NL Central, 2.0 games back
Notes: Pedro Alvarez continued his hot streak and was joined by Andrew McCutchen, Josh Harrison and Clint Barmes. The Pirates are scoring 5.11 runs per game in June. The pitching was good enough to win all three games, but special mention goes to James McDonald for notching the first complete game of his career. He’s come a long way from the guy who couldn’t get out of the 7th last year.
Combined Box
| Pittsburgh | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | LOB | AVG | OBP |
| Harrison, RF, SS | 12 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.417 | 0.417 |
| McGehee, 1B | 12 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0.250 | 0.250 |
| Walker, 2B | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0.000 | 0.077 |
| McCutchen, A, CF | 11 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0.636 | 0.692 |
| Alvarez, 3B | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0.444 | 0.545 |
| Barmes, SS | 8 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.500 | 0.500 |
| Tabata, LF-RF | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Barajas, C | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.167 | 0.167 |
| Presley, PH-LF | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.333 | 0.333 |
| Jones, G, RF, PH | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.400 | 0.400 |
| McDonald, J, P | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| McKenry, C | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.000 | 0.250 |
| Hague, PH | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.500 | 0.500 |
| Bedard, P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Correia, P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Resop, P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | —- | 1.000 |
| Mercer, PR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | —- | —- |
| Totals | 100 | 17 | 29 | 17 | 7 | 16 | 36 | 0.290 | 0.336 |
Batting
Doubles (5): Barmes (11), Alvarez (12), McCutchen 2 (13), Harrison (7)
Triples (1): McCutchen (4)
Home Runs (5): Harrison (2), McCutchen (12), Barajas (7), Jones (8), Alvarez (13)
BaseRunning
SB: Harrison 2 (5), McCutchen (14), Presley (7)
Fielding
Errors: Harrison (2)
Double Plays: (Harrison-Walker-McGehee)
Pitching
| Pittsburgh | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | ERA | WHIP |
| McDonald, J (W, 6-3) | 9.0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1.00 | 0.67 |
| Bedard | 6.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1.50 | 1.00 |
| Correia (W, 3-6) | 5.3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.94 |
| Resop | 2.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 1.50 |
| Slaten | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hughes, J | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
| Grilli (L, 1-2) | 1.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9.00 | 2.00 |
| Cruz, J | 1.0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 18.00 | 2.00 |
| Watson (H, 7) | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 1.50 |
| Totals | 27.0 | 21 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 2 | 1.67 | 0.96 |
Transactions: In a paper move, RHP Daniel McCutchen was activated from the 15-day DL and optioned to AAA where he had been rehabbing.
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