Covering: Twins 4, Pirates 3, 13 innings

I wonder which Locke will show up tonight?

If Locke comes up with a bad performance tonight, then Worley should be given another chance to start. I think he has better overall stuff than Locke. I think Locke should be on a short leash tonite. Can't afford to give up a lot of runs and then hope for a big comeback

Maybe I missed something but why are our 2 left handers starting back to back games?

Anyone want to take a guess - without looking it up on who the Pirates leading position player is in WAR?

Need 7 strong from Locke tonight

Whoa, DK, great pic "our city". Not that you have not taken some nice pics in the the past , but methinks you have had some help from one of your new hires. lol
Spectacular shot!

21 pitches and just 1 out

Tight strike zone, too.

Ugh. Here we go again.

How many times do we have to watch Locke get shelled before Huntington tries something else

Remember, this is the guy they want in the rotation.

Oh boy this is bad. This rotation may be regressing to its mean, but hopefully it doesn't regress too much.

And that's why you can't afford to waste good pitching starts in April... When the bats are working the arms aren't and vice versa. No help on the horizon with Kingham having elbow troubled too.

Cutch plays pretty deep in CF, but here's hoping he had a GOOD LOOK at how Torii Hunter approached that at bat with the bases loaded. No "pull swing for the fences" on an outside pitch... just a discplined hard-strike to the opposite field clearing the bases. Great approach and one that Bucs fans haven't seen very often from their MVP this season.

It's great to see J-Hay getting hits again.

Alvarez - Clutch . . . as always.

The only time you will ever see Alvarez run out anything - is at the ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET. He will move to get to that !!!

Hopefully we don't have to mess with the leadoff spot anymore.

Can't win when your 3 hitter has the worst average of any regular starter on the team. He looks horrid.

Cutch is really irritating me right now.

An American League pitcher batting. Locke throws him 6 pitches, 1 in the strike zone. And it was promptly grounded through the left side for a single.

It'd be nice to see this team take a BB or two.

We got no Marbles right now. This is frustrating watching this team. We need a live chicken or a bucket of pop eyes to sacrifice at the very least.

The Bucs are on pace to turn an extraordinary number of double plays this season.

Credit to Locke... unlike Francisco he has grinded to keep this game a game... and save the bullpen at the same time. I still think it's time to go with someone else in the rotation but give credit where credit is due.

Will Hurdle pull Locke now for a PH? Even with 2 out and no one on?

Just turned the game on....looks like I haven't missed anything out of the ordinary for this team this season. Locke got hit hard early and the offense is still O-ffensive.

Jordy still stinks.

Hurdle - how about getting off your ass and firing your team up.

TOP OF THE ORDER UP IN THE 6th..... TIME FOR NEIL AND CUTCH TO DO SOMETHING.....

Credit to Locke for turning it around after the 1st....too bad the offense is wasting his solid start.

If this comes down to a bullpen battle, I like the Bucs' chances should they close the Twins' lead or even tie it.

No excuse for that...

man we have some bad luck right now. walker crushes it on the button and we get doubled up.

We need a marte parte

Classy move by the Buccos for the greatest Steeler ever

Pirates 2014 record after 40 games was 18-22 which will be matched tonight. June can't come soon enough (Pirates 67-40 the last 4 Junes).

Matt Harvey this weekend? Yikes...

Wow....Hurdle is going to burn PH's back to back here...no faith in Jordy even from Hurdle.

So we have just burned three bench players in 2 ABs??

Nobody asked Bob Smizik, as he secretly smiles.

Rasputin delivers.

cmon Jay hay

Walker, Cutch and Marte due up....

OK, my job is done.

That's the Cutch we need.

Nearly Melancon time.

Nobody can blame Pedro for not bringing in a run here

We really need to win this game tonight. Dejan that's some spot on insight free of charge :-)

Stinks.

I love this team we can never do thing easy. Cutch hits the tying homer we get two guys on and can't capitalize. The cards would have put up 3 more runs there.

Oh no its the woo birds

Mark Melancon, the biggest non story of the season.

Alright. Let's win this thing. Perkins or not. Boyer "the Destroyer" destroyed the Twins' lead. Now, it's time for a hero.

If we finally get a walk off tonight, AJ needs to resurrect the old shaving cream towel in the face.

kinda strange to bring a rule 5 guy in with a tie ballgame. if the twins had a terrible record I could understand it better.

Hope Scahill got his proper rest last night considering the hockey game went on forever.

I keep hearing how the Cards cant hold up after losing Wainright, meanwhile all they do is keep winning and laugh the Mets out of their own stadium tonight.

I predict a Marte homer to win it in the 10th

Is it selective perception on my part, or does seem like Pirate pitchers frequently blow away first two outs, then struggle mightily to get a third out?

Walker is really starting to irritate me. 2 home runs and it's almost Memorial Day.

walker swings at pitch that nearly hits him

Unbelievable...

No Marte Partay. However we are due to win an extra inning game

Come on, Marte. You know he's running on that you dope. Get out of the way.

Mind-boggling, what Toronto gave Babcock.

Starting to believe NHs best acquisitions would be for a hypnotist, an Exorcist, a Voodoo Priest, and Tony Robbins. Not necessarily in that order.

This is ridiculous....come on Buccos end this freakin' game!

Ovah...

The Pirates have to win one of these extra innings games sometime?

Right???

Related: I didn't know the eccentric qualities of the Steelers migrated across the Three Rivers to PNC Park, where they can be world beaters one series and split with the Phillies/possibly lose a series to the Twins.

This Bastardo guy rocks

Bastardo has no clue where he is throwing the ball.

Thanks Antonio for serving up that meatball to Mauer

They just cannot win these...

Sure is nice to have the extra lefty in the pen.

Bastardo and Liz are unreliable.

We get shut down by a Rule 5 guy, and our experienced lefty gives up the winning HR.....

Called it as soon as Bastardo came in. He needs to go.

When is Holzkum coming back

Pitchers spot is due up sixth in this inning since Cervelli got yanked. No position players left to pinch hit

Game over.

They should walk Pedro too. Pitchers spot on deck.

KDro with a typical whiff in a key spot

It's official I hate Pedro Alvarez more than any pirate EVER!!!

This team sucks...

Sigh. Really thought they had a chance tonight, even when down 3-1. Very tough home loss. This extra innings streak of defeats is quite frustrating.

Three and one-half games behind in the wild card race. Cardinals are not likely to go into collapse mode so first place hopes are fading quicky and we are only in May.

The record at this point is similar to last year but for some reason things feel a lot more bleak this season

For you people that decided for some strange reason to watch Team Awful instead of NHL playoffs, you missed a great hockey game.

I felt like Walk did. Really thought they were gonna pull it out. And like Teke said, lost will be Lockes recovery there.

Wow pitching to Pedro with the pitcher on deck -- shows how much they respect him..

Clint rocking his rally facial hair. Probably won't shave until the next win.

Might be Rip Van Hurdle before his next shave.

Think about this. When Morton is added to the team they will probably send Scahill to the Indy because he has options remaining. That means stiffs like Liz and Bastardo will remain on the team. So much for putting your best 25 guys on the big league roster

pitiful offense

pitiful offense

We've turned so many corners I think we are back where we started, maybe go straight?

This team is not going above .500. If they somehow miraculously do I'll be happy with a winning season. Just pathetic.

Wonder how soon this mindbending impotency in the clutch is going to start noticably affecting both the gate and local tv ratings. Hurdle can sing kumbaya all he wants but fans are only going to volunteer for abuse for just so long before they start to say to hell with these chumps.

I remember 2 years ago, when people were willing to put up with Pedro because when he got hot, his bat could carry the offense through a series. There was genuine excitement when he smacked a HR because it got people talking - "Is he about to go on a terror?"

We haven't seen that in one full season+40 games. Will it EVER happen again? With his heft bulging like never before, his confidence crushed after last season's despicably bad fielding issues, and an agent breathing down his neck to "cash in," all signs point to no.

0-6 in extra inning games with 1 run in 17 extra innings which is really bad considering you are facing guys deep in the other team's bullpen. Now 2-16 when the score 3 runs or less. Record identical to 2014 after 40 games and ended May 25-30 before going 17-10 in June.