Recap: With another late-game collapse, the Diamondbacks fell to the Pirates for the second night in a row after being tied or leading going into the eighth inning. The Diamondback gave up eight runs in the eighth and ninth Friday and four runs in the eighth and three in the ninth Saturday.
The Pirates scored first off a solo homer to left from leadoff hitter Josh Harrison with one out in the top of the third. The bomb was his ninth of the season.
"It was a high-risk, high-reward play, and the throw was just a little off," Ziegler said. "I don't know if I'd do anything differently if I had to do it again. I just got rid of the ball as quick as I could cause I knew that was the only chance I had to possibly get an out."
The Pirates scored three more runs in the ninth.
Both starting pitchers lasted six innings, with Anderson giving up five hits, one run and a walk. Pirates starter Vance Worley also gave up one run on seven hits.
Delgado ejected: Although no one in the Diamondbacks organization would confirm, it appeared in the ninth inning with the game out of reach that Arizona took the liberty for some payback after All-Star Paul Goldschmidt was hit in the hand Friday, landing him on the disabled list.
View from the press box: No one has any doubt that Randal Delgado plunked Andrew McCutchen in retaliation for the fastball that injured Paul Goldschmidt the night before, and there are probably situations where that would be justified. But when several Diamondbacks including Goldschmidt said they saw no ill will on the part of the Pirates, and when the offending pitcher, Ernesto Frieri, kept tripping over himself with apologies before the game, it looks petty and incongruous to bury a fastball in McCutchen's back.
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