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The Cubs are in Pittsburgh for a four-game set and open with a day-night doubleheader. On Tuesday night, the game ended with Lester on the mound and not the opposing team celebrating a victory after defeating the Cubs’ bullpen.

Pittsburgh Pirates leftfielder Starling Marte helped keep Saturday’s game against the San Francisco Giants scoreless by robbing Brandon Crawford of a home run in the second inning.

Bumgarner continued to retire the next 12 batters, too, into the seventh inning. Bumgarner wasn’t quite as dominant this time around, getting touched for runs in the first two innings alone. Michael Taylor’s two-run homer in the top of the 7th had tied it for the...

Giants acquire veteran outfielder Marlon Byrd from Reds.

(AP) – The Pittsburgh Pirates can’t alter the course of history by traveling back in time to the first night of October, when the San Francisco Giants rolled to a wild-card win at PNC Park that started their march to a third World Series title in five years.