Andy LaRoche Continues to Lead Pirates; Bucs Win 3-2 over Cubs

Andy LaRoche has been in the lineup for nine of the the Pittsburgh Pirates eleven wins.  He has missed seven games mainly due to back trouble.  That awful 36-1 drubbing from the Brewers?  Yeh, LaRoche wasn’t available.  When the Bucs took two of three from the Brew Crew a week later?   LaRoche had seven hits in fifteen at-bats.  Maybe we are imagining things, but last night surely wasn’t a mirage.  He was impressive with a glove on his hand and with a bat in his hands against the Chicago Cubs. LaRoche homered off Chicago Cubs starter Ryan Dempster in the first inning, but it was the glove [...]