Pittsburgh — It was a rough Labor Day for the Tigers.
In the morning they learned that pitcher Joe Jimenez and bench coach George Lombard tested positive for COVID-19 and three other coaches would have to leave for quarantining because of contact tracing.
Then the game happened.
The Pittsburgh Pirates put up a four-spot against reliever Kyle Funkhouser in the bottom of the seventh and ended a six-game losing streak with a 6-3 win against over the Tigers at PNC Park.
The inning started ominously for Funkhouser.
He’d pitched a clean and quick sixth inning, but he walked Ben Gamel to start the seventh.