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'That's baseball right there:' Castillo, Gamel, Pérez combine for the game-saving play nobody wants to take credit for

It could go down as one of the finest defensive plays by the Pirates this season.

Nobody wanted to take credit for it.

Sandwiched between a couple of rallies in the bottom of the sixth and seventh that would produce all of the Pirates' runs was a relay from left fielder Ben Gamel to shortstop Diego Castillo to catcher Roberto Pérez to get Josh Bell at the plate on a Maikel Franco double:

A run stayed off the board and momentum remained with the club in PNC Park's third base dugout, and the Pirates would go on to beat the Nationals, 5-3, on Sunday.