On a cool Monday night that was perfect for a baseball game the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Chicago Cubs 6-2 behind great pitching by Charlie Morton who threw 7 innings of 1-run ball and 7 strikeouts. Edwin Jackson took the loss giving up 4 runs over 6 innings while striking out 8 and walking 2.
The Pirates offense got started early as a Pedro Alvarez lead off single allowed Starling Marte to drive him in to give Pittsburgh an early 1-0 advantage. They would add to the lead on a home run and a double by 2013 NL MVP Andrew McCutchen to make it a 4-0 disadvantage.
The Cubs scored their first run in the top of the sixth with 2 outs when Starlin Castro hit a double to score Anthony Rizzo who had gotten an infield hit. However the Pirates added 2 more in the bottom of the seventh on 3 straight extra-base hits including a home run from Ike Davis and an RBI double from Starling Marte.
Going into the 9th the Cubs were down 6-1 but a lead off home run by Starlin Castro made it a 6-2 game but were not able to get anything else started that inning.
Player of the Game: Andrew McCutchen 2-4 1 HR 1 2B 3 RBIs
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