ST. LOUIS -- Derek Shelton went over to David Bednar and asked where he was at after finishing the bottom of the eighth.
"His answer was pretty convincing," Shelton said.
"Something along the lines of, ‘I’ll take the ball.’ I guess that would be the PG version," Bednar said. "However you wanna read between the lines. That was the gist of it."
After already recording five outs, the Pirates closer went back out for the ninth and finished off the Cardinals in Busch Stadium Wednesday, snapping a nine-game losing streak and salvaging the final game of the eight-game road trip with a 6-4 win.