Battered, embarrassed and even limping, the Dodgers left Pittsburgh with their season at its lowest point.
They remain three games up in the National League West, thanks to the San Francisco Giants getting swept in Chicago, but that remained their only positive note after the Pirates completed a three-game sweep of the Dodgers with a 13-6 victory on a muggy, painful Sunday night at PNC Park.
The Dodgers started the night so promising, playing aggressively and jumping out to a 5-1 lead. They were still leading, 5-3, going into the bottom of the seventh when they suffered their most humbling inning of the season.