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Adam Wainwright kept the Philadelphia Phillies from making a bit of history. He also showed that the shutout he threw his last time out was no fluke.

Make the most of motion this summer College Sports Briefs: Pioneers falter at NAIA Series Is it finally an Andretti year? Stock cars in Patrick's tunnel vision Team Penske dominance gives Castroneves a good chance to join Four Win Club Quiet heroes: Bob and Harry went to war believing that 'in the end things will be better' Unhealthy point: ... (more)

Erik Bedard , Matt Garza , Andrew McCutchen , Pedro Alvarez , Minnesota Twins , Tampa Bay Rays , Pittsburgh Pirates , Chicago Cubs The Chicago Cubs are trailing 10-0 to the Pittsburgh Pirates after six innings of play on Sunday afternoon.

Hague was hit by a pitch from Cubs' reliever Rafael Dolis with the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the ninth, giving Pittsburgh a rather painful 3-2 victory over Chicago in the middle tilt of a three-game set at PNC Park.

Taylor Thornton scored twice, including the game-winning goal with 16:19 remaining and second-seeded Northwestern advanced to another women's lacrosse national championship game with a 9-7 victory over No.

Allderdice wins 5th consecutive City League baseball title Spanier files suit seeking Penn State emails about Sandusky Second Mile seeks to close, transfer assets District fishing report: 5/25/12 High School Athletes of the Week: Maddie Holmberg of Hempfield Area, Brendan McKay of Blackhawk Good fortune: Rising CEO pay is immune to even sagging ... (more)

Pirates Pedro Alvarez touches home as he slides past the tag of Cubs catcher Koyie Hill Friday night at PNC Park.

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

One of the best managers in the game right now is the Rays Joe Maddon. I read this article today about another one of Maddon's quirky managerial doings.

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Sorry for how long this is but I wanted to look at the breakdown of Huntington's drafts.

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.

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

They were the goats on Monday night. Kirk Nieuwenhuis and Mike Baxter collided in the outfield, let a baseball fall to the ground and watched the game fade away.

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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.

PITTSBURGH - With what the Pirates offense has shown us through nearly two months of the season, very few people probably believed there was any chance of Pittsburgh winning Monday night after falling behind, 4-0, to the New York Mets in the second inning.

The Mets travel to Pittsburgh to open up a three game set with the Pirates and that means it's time for the Amazin' Avenue Five For Five series preview.

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

The Pirates' offense is bad this year. That's an understatement: they've got 118 runs in 41 games, which is an average of less than three runs per game.