For the 10th time in 11 games when they’ve scored a minimum of four runs, the Pirates won tonight — by 4-2 over Chicago for Charlie Morton’s inaugural season victory in six starts. It marked their fourth-biggest margin of victory this season — just two runs.
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I didn’t watch a minute of tonight’s loss. Not a single, dismal minute. And yet after reading the game stories, I feel like I have witnessed this very Cub failure many times already in 2010.
(Cubs’ combined record against the Nationals, Reds, Astros, and Pirates, the bottom four clubs in Jay Jaffe’s National League Power Rankings at Baseball Prospectus, is now 3-8.)
