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Kovacevic: Younger Pirates, following Cutch's lead, find April fire

Invectives were flying.

Heck, someone's phone went flying. Hard, too. Banging into the back of a stall.

A trio of younger players were gathered around that stall in the home clubhouse at PNC Park late Tuesday night, this after what just had to be these Pirates' most uplifting outcome all month, a 9-4 pounding of the Padres, and ... let's just say there was something that'd set them off.

And that it might've been this:

Pitch No. 2 of that sequence between Ji Hwan Bae and San Diego lefty Adrian Morejon was called a ball by home plate umpire Jeremie Rehak.