The same sorry names made up most of the same sorry lineup for the same sorry reasons.
And by the time the Pirates were finally put down by the Marlins, 6-5, on this overcast, underwhelming Sunday afternoon at PNC Park, the same blank faces roamed about the clubhouse as if hoping to avoid wooden stakes, the same stone silence emanated from Major League Baseball's most sparingly used sound system, and the setting seemed no less stoic in the manager's office, where Derek Shelton, Ben Cherington and some staff gathered to discuss .