Scores:
Friday: 14-5 Win at St. Louis. Lots of late runs. Box score.
Saturday: 7-3 Win at St. Louis. Pedro smash. Box score.
Sunday: 5-4 Loss at St. Louis. Not enough to bail out Bedard. Box score.
Season Record: 42-36, 2nd place in NL Central, 1.0 game back
Notes: Two outstandings games and one disappointing one. Good to see the Jeff Karstens from last year show up. Erik Bedard has not been very good for a month. Jose Tabata scored four runs and was on base six times, which was good to see. Big weekend for Pedro Alvarez with eight RBI, including a grand slam. Andrew McCutchen injured his wrist on Saturday making a diving catch and got Sunday off. He’s expected to be fine.
Combined Box
| Pittsburgh | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | LOB | AVG | OBP |
| Tabata, RF | 13 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0.308 | 0.400 |
| Walker, 2B | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0.500 | 0.571 |
| Presley, LF-CF | 12 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0.417 | 0.462 |
| Alvarez, 3B | 11 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0.364 | 0.500 |
| Barmes, SS | 11 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0.364 | 0.364 |
| Jones, G, 1B | 11 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0.273 | 0.333 |
| McCutchen, A, CF | 9 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.667 | 0.700 |
| Sutton, LF-2B | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0.222 | 0.222 |
| McKenry, C | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 0.250 | 0.250 |
| McGehee, PH-1B | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.200 | 0.200 |
| Barajas, C | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Harrison, 2B-3B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Karstens, P | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Correia, P | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 0.500 |
| Lincoln, P, PH | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 0.500 |
| Bedard, P | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Fryer, PR-LF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | —- | —- |
| Totals | 118 | 25 | 39 | 25 | 10 | 27 | 57 | 0.331 | 0.383 |
Batting
Doubles (6): McCutchen (16), Alvarez (14), McKenry (5), Tabata (13), Walker (15), Sutton (7)
Triple (1): Presley (2)
Home Runs (6): Barmes (4), Presley (6), Jones (10), McCutchen (15), Alvarez (15), McKenry (6)
BaseRunning
SB: Presley (8)
CS: Tabata (9)
Fielding
Double Plays: (Harrison-Sutton-Jones)
Pitching
| Pittsburgh | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | ERA | WHIP |
| Karstens(W, 1-2) | 7.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 2.57 | 0.86 |
| Correia(W, 4-6) | 5.0 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9.00 | 1.60 |
| Bedard(L, 4-9) | 4.7 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 9.64 | 2.14 |
| Lincoln | 3.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.33 |
| Resop | 2.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Watson | 1.7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5.40 | 1.80 |
| Hughes, J(S, 1) | 1.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Cruz, J | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
| Totals | 26.0 | 22 | 13 | 13 | 7 | 24 | 3 | 4.50 | 1.12 |
Transactions: None
Filed under: baseball, Pirates Tagged: | Andrew McCutchen, baseball, Cardinals, Erik Bedard, Jeff Karstens, Jose Tabata, Pedro Alvarez, Pirates
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