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Pirates struggle in wake of Vazquez arrest … which is only human

They all talked like it didn't matter.

But you could practically hear the elephant in the room trumpeting along.

"We're all professionals. We are human, and a lot of crazy stuff happened today in our world," Cole Tucker was telling me at his locker. "But when the game starts and the umpire says 'play ball,' I mean, it's baseball. So it's business as usual. Obviously the game didn't reflect that."

No, the game most certainly didn't reflect that. Not on this Tuesday night at PNC Park, when the Pirates fell, 6-0, to the Mariners just hours after news broke that the team's All-Star closer Felipe Vazquez was arrested on what Chris Archer called "heinous" charges before the game.