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Canadian-born righty Ryan Dempster stands between the Chicago Cubs and a double-digit losing streak tonight when they head to Pittsburgh to open a three-game series with the Pirates at PNC Park.

The handwringing over the Pirates offense is officially full-blown. And you know what, it should be.

The Pirates and Mets finish up at PNC Park this afternoon with a 12:35 tilt that will pit Charlie Morton against Jon Niese.

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Pittsburgh limited the New York Mets to three runs but lost for the second consecutive day, held to five hits in a 3-1 defeat Wednesday.

Jon Niese pitched into the eighth inning, David Wright hit an RBI double and the Mets defeated the Pirates, 3-1, on Wednesday in the finale of a three-game series.

Adversity can bring out character; adversity can educate. But for the Pittsburgh Pirates 2012 edition, it has done nothing but frustrate.

You can use this thread as yesterday's game recap and as a gamethread for this afternoon's game .

For a team in fourth place, the Mets have won quite a few divisional games . Part of that's necessity -- they've played more inter-divisional contests than the Nationals and Braves combined.

R.A. Dickey had it on Tuesday evening. He's "had it" in his previous outings this year but last night, whether it was because of a great knuckleball or a woeful Pirates lineup or both, R.A. Dickey had his strikeout knuckler working and he was absolutely excellent over seven innings in the Mets' 3-2 victory.

In his last outing, he surrendered eight runs on eight hits and a pair of walks.

There was some talk on Twitter this morning about Neal Huntington's worst moves , so I thought I'd take a look at his best ones.

Correia is the whipping boy of the Pirates' rotation. He has a lower ERA than A.J. Burnett and has been just as effective as Charlie Morton in 2012.

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The 29-year-old Verlander, last year's AL MVP and Cy Young Award winner, nearly became the sixth major league pitcher with at least three career no-hitters. But with one out in the ninth, Harrison reached out and flicked a 1-2 slider into shallow center field for a clean single.

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The Bucs will use a designated hitter in Detroit and were down a bat after demoting Alex Presley to AAA Indianapolis and recalling pitcher Evan Meek .

At this point though, that's the case with both teams out of first place in their respective divisions with 18-20 records.

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