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Matt Hague was hit by a pitch from Rafael Dolis with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning, and Pittsburgh sent Chicago to its 11th straight loss.

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You'll have trouble coming up with two major league baseball players who were once teammates at a WPIAL school.

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Next week, Six The Hard Way will feature the Men of May, the top 6 performers of the month, but for now, lets focus on the hottest and nottest over the past 7-14 days.

The plate discipline of the 2012 Pirates is nothing short of horrifying. However, this is not a new thing.

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Pittsburgh Pirates' Neil Walker waits for a teammate to bring him his hat and glove after grounding into an inning-ending double play during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets in Pittsburgh Wednesday, May 23, 2012.

Brian Erni: A Dickey was on point tonight. He threw 67 of his 88 pitches for strikes, and the 11 strikeouts were a career high.

Contrasting pitching styles at PNC Park tonight at 7:05 as knuckleballer R.A. Dickey takes on the Pirates , while budding star James McDonald faces the Metropolitans.

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Kyle Drabek overcame command issues to win for the first time on the road this season, Yunel Escobar hit a tiebreaking homer and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Rays 6-2 on Monday night.

New York Mets starting pitcher Johan Santana throws against the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first inning of the baseball game on Monday, May 21, 2012, in Pittsburgh.

This Indianapolis 500 already has plenty of drama: panic over the size of the field, engine shortages, legal wrangling and issues with underperforming Lotus.

A driver was beaten in the Dodger Stadium parking lot after a weekend game and four people were arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, police said Monday.

Here is my Q&A with Pirates bloggerA Brian McElhinny of Raise the Jolly Roger A to try and get a sense of how Pittsburgh fans feel about their team heading into tonight's game against the Mets: Vinny Cartiglia: Even though the Pirates are a couple of games below .500, they are only 3 games behind the Division leading Cardinals.

Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen cracked two homers in games on May 17 and 19.

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Pittsburgh Pirates' Neil Walker watches his sixth-inning home run against the Detroit Tigers in an interleague baseball game, Sunday, May 20, 2012, in Detroit.