The difference between a team like the Pirates and a team like the Astros -- the former which is trying to climb out of Major League Baseball's basement and the latter which reached the top of the mountain last season -- came down to a sum of moments in the Pirates' 7-0 loss to the defending World Series champion on a summer-like April Day at PNC Park Wednesday.
The clichés are clichés until they're not anymore, just like the thought of small things adding up to mean one larger thing at the end of the day.