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Coverage: So, Cutch, how’s your knee?

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Andrew McCutchen gets a fist-bump after scoring in the fourth inning Tuesday night. -- GETTY

BY DEJAN KOVACEVIC

SAN FRANCISCO -- For more than a decade, a strange sign draped across the double-door entrance to AT&T Park's visiting clubhouse: "HARVEY 'HOW'S YOUR KNEE?' HODGERNEY" As many times as I'd walked under it, I never asked or even wondered what it meant. Just assumed it was another of this city's countless quirks.

Well, it was gone this year, so I asked, on a whim, if maybe the Pirates had it taken down temporarily to spare Andrew McCutchen anyone asking about his knee.

I was only partially kidding.

Similarly, I was only partially kidding late Tuesday night when, after Cutch went 4 for 5 with a triple, double and two RBIs in a 7-4 setdown of the Giants, I asked Clint Hurdle how Cutch's knee was doing:

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