You can’t draw it up more brutal than that. You just can’t.
The Pirates’ division hopes are now on life support, and are out of their own hands. Winning the last two games of this series would leave them in need of two wins by the awful Braves over the Cards over the weekend, and that’s assuming the Pirates finish on a five game win streak, and all that would only force a game #163 tiebreaker. So it’s not quite official yet, but the Pirates had their big chance, they missed it, and they appear to be Wild Card bound again.