PITTSBURGH — In his first trip back to this city he loved living in, which is where he has often said he really began to learn the art of pitching, Joe Musgrove was five days removed from throwing the first no-hitter in Padres history.
He acknowledged, after throwing 81 pitches and allowing a run in four innings here a little more than a year ago, that it had been like pitching under water.
Musgrove returned this weekend, and Sunday showed his former team what he can do now while pitching for his hometown club. The big right-hander allowed only a seventh-inning run before the Padres bullpen weathered an eighth-inning crisis and finished out a 5-2 victory at PNC Park.
