Pirates end 5-game skid, beat Cubs again
PITTSBURGH (AP)—Pinch-hitter Bobby Crosby(notes) singled in the go-ahead run in theeighth inning, Garrett Jones(notes) homered and the Pittsburgh Pirates ended afive-game losing streak by beating the Chicago Cubs 2-1 on Monday.
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The Pirates were coming off a 1-6 road trip and had lost nine of 11, only tobeat the Cubs for the eighth time in nine meetings dating to the final week oflast season. The Pirates were 6-1 in May against the Cubs but were 5-17 againstthe rest of the NL.
Jones’ ninth homer of the season tied it at 1 in the sixth, and he doubledleading off the eighth against reliever Sean Marshall(notes) (5-2). After LastingsMilledge(notes) grounded out and Ryan Doumit(notes) was intentionally walked, Crosby lined a3-2 pitch by Marshall into center field to score Jones.
Evan Meek(notes) (3-1) pitched a scoreless eighth for the victory, and OctavioDotel(notes) finished up for his 11th save in 13 opportunities by striking out aslumping Ryan Theriot(notes) to end the game. The Pirates won despite scoring threeruns or fewer for the 11th time in 12 games.
Cubs starter Randy Wells(notes) pitched five shutout innings on two days’ restafter failing to retire a batter in his previous start, a 7-1 loss Friday to St.Louis in which he allowed six hits on 16 pitches. Wells left with a 1-0 lead,but that disappeared in three pitches by reliever James Russell(notes) as Jones homeredinto the right-field seats.
Pirates starter Ross Ohlendorf(notes), 0-3 this season and winless in 10 startssince Aug. 18, also pitched effectively but didn’t figure in the decision. Hestruck out six, walked two while allowing three hits over seven innings, and amixup by the Pirates’ outfield led to the only run he allowed.
Alfonso Soriano(notes) tripled into the left-center gap with one out in the secondon a fly ball that center fielder Andrew McCutchen(notes) was in position to catch,only to pull up at the last moment to avoid colliding into left fielder RyanChurch(notes). McCutchen could be seen calling for the ball, but Church continued topursue it until he and McCutchen were nearly side-by-side.
Soriano, who came in batting .211 in his previous 12 games, then scored onGeovany Soto’s(notes) grounder.
The Pirates, deficient defensively most of the season, had one of their bestgames in the field. Despite the Soriano fly ball misplay, McCutchen roamed farto his right to slide on his left hip and catch Soriano’s line drive in thesixth inning. In the eighth, third baseman Andy LaRoche(notes) likely prevented a runfrom scoring by making an excellent play on Mike Fontenot’s(notes) two-out grounderwith a runner on third.
NOTES: The Cubs sat down Theriot, who was 5 for 35 in his previous eightgames, but he entered the game during a double switch in the eighth. Fontenotstarted at 2B. … Wells became the first Cubs pitcher to start twice in fourdays since Mike Bielecki on June 12 & 15, 1990. … Cubs pitching prospectAndrew Cashner(notes) made his major league debut, retiring Ronny Cedeno(notes) on a pop-up toend the eighth on the only pitch he threw.
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