San Diego closer Robert Suarez got a huge called third strike with the bases loaded to end the eighth inning and the Padres beat Pittsburgh 3-2 on Friday night for their 10th straight victory over the Pirates.

Jackson Merrill knocked in two runs and Nick Pivetta fired six solid innings as the San Diego Padres edged the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 on Friday.

When Robert Suarez threw a 99-mph fastball below the strike zone on a full count with two outs and the bases loaded in the top of the eighth inning, Henry Davis flipped his bat and started to take off his wrist protector in celebration.

Notes and observations from Major League Baseball as the calendar flips to June: n The dismissal of Derek Shelton three weeks ago in his sixth season as the Pittsburgh Pirates manager, and the promotion of bench coach Don Kelly to that position,

Despite entering Tuesday with the least productive lineup in MLB, the Pittsburgh Pirates dug themselves out of a six-run hole to defeat the Arizona Diamondbacks.

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Things are not looking so good for Andrew McCutchen and the Pittsburgh Pirates. They are wallowing at the bottom of the National League Central Division with just a 21-37 record following their 3-2 loss to the San Diego Padres to open a three-game series at Petco Park in San Diego on Friday.

The Pittsburgh Pirates (21-36) are headed to the West Coast to take on the San Diego Padres (31-23) in a three-game weekend series. Pittsburgh has won six of th