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Rookie catcher Ryan Doumit's errant throw on a rundown play in the 12th inning got Pete Mackanin's managerial run in Pittsburgh off to a losing start, a defeat to Arizona that ended the Diamondbacks' five-game losing streak.
The Pirates dropped their fifth in a row, 10th in 11 games and 15th in 19 games, a slide that caused manager Lloyd McClendon to be fired earlier in the day. Mackanin, a 13-year minor league managing veteran and the bench coach, succeeds McClendon for the rest of the season.See the full content of this document
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Diamondbacks 4, Pirates 2 (12)
The game-winning run came on a play that illustrated why both teams have been stuck in long slides since several months into th...
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