PITTSBURGH -- Trailing by one run in the sixth inning with two runners in scoring position, Pirates manager Clint Hurdle made a series of aggressive moves that nearly emptied his already short bench. As rain poured down on PNC Park, that felt like the Bucs’ best chance to get back in the game.\n\nWhen they didn’t score, it seemed as if they had taken their shot and missed. But the urgency of those moves caught the Pirates’ attention, said
Batting with nobody out in the sixth,
For all the moves Hurdle made in the sixth, it was the one player he didn’t send up to bat who came through with the biggest hit of the night. It was Newman’s second game-winning hit of the season -- he had ripped a walk-off double on April 6, only a few days before he was sidelined by a lacerated middle finger.\n\n“I like to be the guy that goes up there in that situation,” Newman said. “I want the bat. I want to come through for my teammates. To get a couple of them this early is definitely awesome.”
Cervelli, who began the night batting just .169, then smacked an RBI single to left to give the Bucs a two-run lead. With only backup catcher Elias Diaz remaining on Pittsburgh’s bench, pitcher Joe Musgrove pinch-hit for reliever Michael Feliz -- who had entered the game in an emergency for injured reliever