PITTSBURGH -- Off the bat, the immediate question about Andrew McCutchen's eighth-inning loft to right-center seemed to be whether it would stay in the confines of PNC Park. It did.
As it bounced off the warning track and the fence, with Tigers center fielder Tyler Collins in chase, the RBI part of McCutchen's double seemed like an afterthought. It was hit so deep that any play at the plate on John Jaso coming home seemed like a long shot.
"A play like that, you have to have a lot of things go right," said second baseman Ian Kinsler, whose relay throw beat Jaso to the plate for one of the key outs in a 7-4 Tigers victory Thursday.