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Pittsburgh didnt buckle, though, roughing up Kennedy early, scoring four of its runs with two outs and getting eight solid, pieced-together innings from the bullpen. Garrett Jones hit a solo homer off Kennedy in the sixth inning and drove in three runs. Andrew McCutchen had the final of Pittsburghs two-out hits, lining a run-scoring single off Bryan Shaw (0-2) in the ninth inning. Jason Grilli (1-1) gave up a solo homer to John McDonald in the eighth inning, but picked up the win. Juan Cruz, Pittsburghs sixth pitcher of the night, picked up his first save since 2009 by working a perfect ninth. "We put some runs on the board, scratched and clawed," said Pirates reliever Tony Watson, who pitched 2 1-3 scoreless innings. "The final results all that matters and we won." The Diamondbacks played without right fielder Justin Upton due to a sore thumb and lost centre fielder Chris Young in the fourth inning to a right shoulder injury after a hard crash into the wall. Upton has been bothered by a left thumb injury since jamming it into a base against the Giants on April 8. He played Monday against the Pirates, but was out of the lineup for the second game of the series after having his thumb drained. Young, the Diamondbacks leading hitter at .405 with five homers and 13 RBIs, was injured while tracking down a fly ball by Pedro Alvarez in left-centre in the fourth. Young leaped to catch the ball and slammed into the wall shoulder-first, falling in a heap onto the warning track. He lay there for several minutes as team medical personnel attended to him and gingerly walked to the dugout after being helped up. The team said Young will have an MRI on Wednesday. "I didnt think I was going to hit the wall," Young said. "As I was going down, I hit my shoulder. It got tight on me. It is a little tighter now -- I cant lift it." Kennedy was expected to have an easy night against the light-hitting Pirates. A 21-game winner who finished fourth in the 2011 NL Cy Young voting, the right-hander entered the game with an eight-game winning streak that dated to last year, including his first two starts this season. The Pirates came in as baseballs worst-hitting team at .188 and trotted out a lineup that had six players under .200. Of course they got to Kennedy early. McCutchen got it started with a two-out single in the first inning and came in two batters later, when Jones lined a run-scoring single to left-centre. Kennedy continued to scuffle after that. Pittsburgh put together another two-out rally in the third inning against him, tying it at 3-all on Neil Walkers run-scoring single and an RBI double by Jones. Jones gave the Pirates the lead in the sixth, hitting Kennedys first pitch out to the pool deck in right-centre. Kennedy didnt come out for the seventh after allowing four runs on eight hits. "All my command, off-speed was terrible, changeup was terrible, pretty much one of those days," said Kennedy, who had allowed four earned runs his first two starts combined. "You know in the first inning that it is pretty much going to be a long day." McDonald got Kennedy off the hook for the loss with his solo homer off Grilli in the eighth, his first with the Diamondbacks. The Pirates answered in the ninth with their final act of clutch hitting. Pittsburgh leadoff hitter Alex Presley got it started by legging out an infield single that went off Shaws glove, then took third on pinch hitter Casey McGehees single the next at-bat. McCutchen fought off a couple of good pitches from Shaw and put Pittsburgh ahead with a looping single that fell just in front of Willie Bloomquist in left for his fourth hit to easily score Presley. "We had better at-bats across the board from a lot of guys," Hurdle said. "Really battling and grinding on offence tonight. Just one more run than them." 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He has an 18-1 record to start 2012, the only loss coming to Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. Verdasco was aiming for his first title since winning in Barcelona in 2010. "I am extremely disappointed I wasnt able to have the fight I was expecting to have," he said. Wholesale Jerseys. "I just couldnt keep the ball in the court today. Its always tough to lose a final, but losing it that way hurts a lot more." In the womens event, Italys Sara Errani defeated compatriot Flavia Pennetta 5-7, 7-6 (2), 6-0 to win her third WTA title. Pennetta captured the first set, which was filled with mistakes. Neither player managed to hold serve in the first seven games, and Errani was able to hold only once in the entire set. Errani bounced back to win the second set in a tiebreaker, and gained momentum to take the deciding set 6-0 to complete the 2 1/2-hour match. "It was such a tough final against Flavia," she said. "Its never easy playing an Italian but I played really well, especially in the third set." Errani also won the doubles title with partner Roberta Vinci, becoming the first player in nearly two years to win the singles and doubles at the same WTA tournament. ' ' '


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