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Baseball Musings:
Craig Monroe made a great base running play that won the game for Pittsburgh as they down Atlanta 3-2:
After Atlanta closed to 2-1 on a near-homer by Brian McCann, and Monroe’s heads-up play on the base paths restored the two-run lead. He led off the seventh as a pinch-hitter and was grazed by Eric O’Flaherty’s [...]
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Pirates (27-32) at Braves (29-29)
1:00–Turner Field, Atlanta
TV (Atlanta market only): SportsSouth
[Here is the MLB Gameday]
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ATLANTA (AP) — Andy LaRoche hit a two-out, two-run single in the ninth inning and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Atlanta Braves 3-1 Thursday to split the four-game series.
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