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Here's a quick look at the Pirates' checklist and standing as the organization prepares for the Winter Meetings in Indianapolis next week: Pirates' needs Relievers: This is the Pirates' most pressing need for 2010.

Pirates general manager Neal Huntington is in no rush to spend money on free agents this winter.

Lincoln began the season with the AA Altoona Curve, where he posted a 2.28 ERA but a 1-5 record, and then was promoted to the AAA Indy Indians, where his record was better at 6-2 and his ERA was 4.70. Time to add him to the 40-man roster.

Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Jason Jaramillo, right, can't get the tag on the Royals' Mark Teahen , who scored from third on a David DeJesus fielder's choice to Pirates first baseman Adam LaRoche in the fifth inning of Sunday's game in Pittsburgh.

Yesterdaya s trade of Jesse Chavez for Akinori Iwamura was hardly a blockbuster.

From the cavernous Yankee Stadium, where Game 1 of the World Series was hours away from beginning on Wednesday , I bring you another Inbox edition.

The Pittsburgh Pirates swept a doubleheader from the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, winning game one 4-0 and the second game 8-2. Charlie Morton fired a complete-game four-hitter in the opener to improve to 5 and 9. The Pirates scored all four of their runs in the top of the first with Jason Jaramillo's two-run double the key blow.

Pirates' Morton shuts down Cubs in 4-0 win Eds: APNewsNow. Pirates 4, Cubs 0. AP Photo CXC305, CXC301, CXC303 CHICAGO Charlie Morton pitched a four-hitter to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 4-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday in the first game of a doubleheader.

There are some things a manager senses instinctively, things he knows with the same dead certainty as that "play ball!" will follow the national anthem.

Andy LaRoche looked like he could barely stand up Monday night. Yet, the Pirates third baseman was back in the lineup for the finale of a four-game series against the San Diego Padres at PNC Park.

A handful of Pirates fondly remember their success at the 2007 World Cup. The memory of the 2007 baseball World Cup that sticks with catcher Jason Jaramillo involves a jumble of red, white and blue and a lot of yelling.

The LA Dodgers completed a three-game sweep of the last-place Pirates, beating them 3-1 Wednesday.

St. Louis Cardinals' Brendan Ryan, front, scores ahead of the tag by Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Jason Jaramillo during the fifth inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Sunday, Sept.

It's not true that there were only Chicago baseball fans left at the end of another depressing day at PNC Park yesterday, although the "Let's Go Cubs!" chant that fairly rocked the yard in the ninth inning surely made it seem that way.

A runner dressed as "Tinker Bell" flutters her way through a tunnel leading to Angel Stadium during the fourth annual Disneyland Half Marathon, a 13.1-mile course dubbed "The happiest Race on Earth" in Anaheim, Calif.

An RBI single by Garrett Jones helped Pittsburgh edge St. Louis 6-5, temporarily preventing his team's 17th straight losing season.

Fewer than 2,000 fans showed up for the first game of a day-night doubleheader at Great American Ball Park, which turned into a red-seat echo chamber.

The Piratesa TM Jason Jaramillo a ' and few others a ' watch his RBI single Monday in Game 1 of a doubleheader.

Not a good evening for Paul Maholm , after consecutive strong outings. Not a good day for Jesse Chavez , after yielding crucial runs in the final innings of consecutive losses in this day-night doubleheader yesterday.

The Pirates again benched catcher Ryan Doumit last night, this after he was pulled in mid-game Friday for unspecified transgressions on the field, but there also was a palpable effort yesterday on the part of the team and the player to put the matter to rest.