8/27 Recap | Cardinals 4 Pirates 3

The Pirates lost again on Monday night, this time to the division and wild card rival Cardinals. They took a two run lead in the fourth inning when Jose Tabata, Travis Snider, and Andrew McCutchen opened the inning with singles and then Josh Harrison hit a sacrifice fly later in the inning.

A.J. Burnett couldn’t hold the lead for long, as the Cardinals answered with two runs the very next inning. Burnett would give up two more in the sixth as his recent stretch of mediocrity continued. Jared Hughes, Jason Grilli, and Tony Watson shut the Cardinals out over the final 3.1 innings.

< Clint Barmes doubled in a run in the seventh to get his team within one but they couldn’t do anything else the rest of the night and they lost again.