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Pirates star McCutchen laughs off leaked pay stub

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Good thing Andrew McCutchen has direct deposit.The Pittsburgh Pirates star centerfielder laughed off a leaked photo of his pay stub Friday, joking he can handle the attention so long as he still gets paid.McCutchen's two-week stub was left behind in the visitor's clubhouse at Wrigley Field last weekend following a series with the Cubs."It was given to me and I was in the middle of doing something else," McCutchen said. "I put it down real quick and then we left, and I left it there."A Reddit user posted a picture of the statement, saying a friend came across it while ...

ALL SMILES

PITTSBURGH - A.J. Burnett insists this is it. That after 17 years in the majors, he is done whenever the Pittsburgh Pirates season ends, no matter what.Funny, nobody told his stuff. The way Burnett is dealing at the moment, he hardly looks like a guy counting down the days to retirement.Dazzling the New York Mets with impeccable command, Burnett won his fourth straight start in an 8-2 victory on Saturday, easily outdueling an uncharacteristically sloppy Matt Harvey to lower his ERA to 1.37, the best in the majors.Heady stuff for a 38-year-old who led the National League in losses, walks ...

Everything clicks as Pirates win streak grows to 5

PITTSBURGH - Jeff Locke doesn't have the same electric stuff as the other four guys in Pittsburgh's rotation.The left-hander has to find different ways to put up zeros. When his curveball obeys the way it did in Tuesday night's 5-1 win over Miami, Locke fits in quite well.Avoiding the major trouble that has plagued him at times this season, Locke tossed 5 2/3 shutout innings to pick up his first victory in nearly six weeks and extend Pittsburgh's winning streak to five.From Locke's perspective, he is just trying to keep pace on a rotation that ranks second in the majors in ERA behind the ...

Bucs use 2-out lightning to topple Marlins

PITTSBURGH - Mired in a funk a quarter of the way into a season with high expectations, Clint Hurdle challenged his team to get its act together.A week later, it appears the Pittsburgh Pirates were listening.Jung Ho Kang capped a late rally with a two-run single and the Pirates ran their winning streak to six games with a 5-2 victory over the Miami Marlins on Wednesday."For way too long we were a good team playing mediocre baseball, so you're not a good team really," Hurdle said. "You've got to connect the dots. You've got to put parts of the game in play."At the moment, they're all ...

Pitchers lead Pirates in 6-straight wins

PITTSBURGH - In the Pirates' current six-game winning streak, the offense has put up 35 runs. More important, the pitching staff has only surrendered nine runs during that span."We pitch it first," said Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle. "You're not going to go anywhere if you can't pitch it. We have guys that can pitch it and we have guys that can back them up."Pirates starters have gone at least 5 2/3 innings in the past six wins and relief pitchers have only given up a total of two runs in 13 innings of work."I try to go over it the same way each time," said reliever Arquimedes ...

Kang, Marte, Polanco homer in Pirates’ 11-5 win vs Padres

SAN DIEGO - Jung Ho Kang hit a three-run homer and Starling Marte and Gregory Polanco also went deep off Ian Kennedy to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to their seventh straight victory, 11-5 over the San Diego Padres on Thursday night.A.J. Burnett (5-1), who no-hit the Padres in 2001 while with the Marlins, won his fifth straight start. Andrew McCutchen, Neil Walker and Francisco Cervelli each had three of the Pirates' 15 hits.The Pirates' first six runs scored on homers, including no-doubters by Kang and Polanco. Kang's shot with two outs in the first, his third, went an estimated 430 feet ...