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- Updated: August 14, 2016
LOS ANGELES — The Pirates had chances to score. Plenty of them.
But most of those chances evaporated into the Southern California sky, as Pittsburgh left a franchise record-tying 18 men on base and went 1-for-14 with runners in scoring position in an 8-4 loss at Dodger Stadium on Saturday.
“They were out there. We couldn’t get them in,” manager Clint Hurdle said. “I don’t think we were trying to do anything but fight, scratch, claw our way back into the game.”
Gerrit Cole allowed a career-high 12 hits, the defense committed three errors — two of them by Jung Ho Kang on one play — and their pitching staff didn’t put a zero on the scoreboard until Jeff Locke’s scoreless seventh.
Still, the Pirates had plenty of chances to win and solidify their standing in the National League Wild Card race.
They totaled 10 hits and 11 walks. They batted with the bases loaded six times, five of them in the first two innings and three of them against a starter, Brandon McCarthy, with wayward command.
John …
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