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Adam LaRoche matched his career-high with four hits and the Pirates completed a three-game sweep of the Florida Marlins with a 7-4 victory on Wednesday afternoon at PNC Park. The Pirates, who have won five of six, improved to 9-6. They haven’t been three games over .500 this late in any season since 2002. The [...]

Paul Maholm (2-0), who ranks second in the National League with an 0.87 ERA, faces Ricky Nolasco (1-1, 6.60 ERA) as the Pirates try to sweep Florida at 12:35 p.m. today at PNC Park before heading away to a six-game road trip in San Diego and Milwaukee. The weather is overcast and chilly — game-time [...]

Ryan Doumit will have surgery Thursday to repair a fractured wrist and will be out eight to 10 weeks, perhaps longer. The Pirates put Doumit on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to yesterday. Robinzon Diaz was called up from Triple-A Indianapolis. Doumit broke the scaphoid bone Sunday while swinging the bat. A screw or pin [...]

The Pirates are awaiting the results of an CT scan on Ryan Doumit’s sore right wrist before deciding whether to put their starting catcher and clean-up hitter on the disabled list. After tonight’s 8-0 victory against the Marlins, GM Neal Huntington offered what he called “a non-update” on Doumit’s status. After Doumit had an MRI [...]

The Pirates are awaiting the results of an MRI exam on Ryan Doumit’s right wrist. According to manager John Russell, Doumit “felt a little stretch” in the wrist as he took a swing during his second at-bat in Sunday’s game against the Braves. Doumit played out the game, but awoke this morning with significant soreness [...]

This is the Marlins’ only scheduled trip to Pittsburgh, so expect both teams to do whatever it takes to play this three-game series at PNC Park, despite the downpours expected today, tomorrow and Wednesday. As I type this (at 3:15 p.m.) the tarp is on the field and rain is falling, but there is no [...]

What should have been a routine grounder by Nyjer Morgan instead turned into an adventure. With one out in the eighth inning, Morgan hit a hard bouncer up the middle. Reliever Jeff Bennett snagged the ball before Morgan was even halfway down the line. However, Bennett threw the ball over the head of first baseman [...]

Jack Wilson, who sprained his left middle finger in the home opener, returns to the lineup this afternoon. • With the Pirates leading 10-0 in the ninth inning yesterday, it might have seemed a good spot to use Rule 5 pickup Donnie Veal for an inning of relief. Manager John Russell and pitching coach Joe [...]

In the second inning today, Ian Snell froze Atlanta’s Jordan Schafer with a changeup for strike three. Snell, catcher Ryan Doumit and third baseman Andy LaRoche began walking back to the dugout. There was only one problem. Schafer’s strikeout was the inning’s second out, not the third. “I’d never struck anybody out with a changeup [...]

Still bothered by a sore left middle finger, shortstop Jack Wilson is out of the starting lineup for the third time in four days. • Lineups for today’s game: BRAVES — 1. Kelly Johnson 2b, 2. Omar Infante ss, 3. Garret Anderson lf, 4. Brian McCann c, 5. Casey Kotchman 1b, 6. Jeff Francoeur rf, [...]