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Plenty of blame to go around in Pirates' ugly loss to D-backs

For the second game in a row, the Pirates battled back from an early deficit to take the lead or tie the game. But, for the second game in a row, the Pirates failed to walk away with a victory.

The Pirates lost Sunday's rubber match against the Diamondbacks by a lopsided 8-3 final score. But, the Pirates' performance in the field was perhaps more ugly than the numbers in the run column.

"We didn't play well defensively today," Derek Shelton said. "We made a couple of careless errors that cost us a run.