ST. LOUIS -- Make that seven in a row.
This loss was the most improbable, if not preventable. After building up a 5-0 lead, the Pirates gave it all back in the bottom of the sixth before eventually losing to the Cardinals, 7-5, at Busch Stadium.
That’s the Pirates’ seventh straight loss, their sixth that was decided by two runs. That would insinuate the Pirates were at least close. They should have escaped with at least a couple wins.
“We're just in that stretch where we have to make our own breaks, and we have not done that," Derek Shelton said.