CHICAGO -- While they did show some life late in the game, the Pirates' offense struggled for most of Friday, and wound up dropping the first leg of a five-game road trip to the Cubs, 6-3.
After being one-hit in Wednesday's loss, the Pirates only had two hits going into the eighth inning Friday. There, they did manage to scrap out a run on a Jarrod Dyson single, snapping a 16 inning scoreless streak, before Josh Bell and Colin Moran went deep on back-to-back Craig Kimbrel pitches in the ninth.