PITTSBURGH — It’s still possible the Pirates will lose 100 games this season, but they aren’t going quietly into that good night.
For a time, in Monday’s game against the St. Louis Cardinals, everything looked set up for the Pirates to take a quiet, routine loss. Their old nemesis Albert Pujols had smashed a two-run, sixth-inning homer to give the Cardinals a two-run lead.
And yet, the Pirates fought back. They plated one in bottom of the sixth and another on a Jack Suwinski solo shot in the eighth, setting up walk-off heroics to stave off triple-digit losses for at least another day.