No wonder reliever Jared Hughes jokingly trudged around the clubhouse with his arms raised in front of him, doing his best zombie impression.
Pirates manager Clint Hurdle calls the occasional red-eye trips and bleary-eyed mornings a "tax" on the Pirates' success, but it's a welcome one for a club that went so long out of the national spotlight before its recent resurgence.
The Pirates made a similar trip two weeks ago, when they played a nationally televised Sunday night game against the Giants at PNC Park before flying straight to Miami.
"It's been a nice, interesting sequence of events with the Sunday night games, an opportunity to play in front of a national audience, represent 'Buc Nation' coast to coast," Hurdle said.