LOS ANGELES -- Derek Shelton checked with pitching coach Oscar Marin to see how David Bednar was. He had just thrown 27 pitches in the bottom of the eighth, by itself almost a season-high.
That elongated inning resulted in two Dodgers runs, giving them the lead going into the ninth.
"Definitely came in the dugout just incredibly frustrated," Bednar said.
But when the Pirates rallied to get the two back on a Michael Perez hit, a Freddie Freeman error and a pair of slides home by Diego Castillo and Michael Chavis, Bednar had a chance at redemption.