Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle insists he hasn't been keeping close tabs of his team's slide following a hot start. He wasn't aware the Pirates had dropped eight straight series until someone mentioned it to him earlier in the week. "If somebody would have told me you're going to lose eight series, you'd think you're going to be horrible," Hurdle said. "We're not horrible. We're fighting. And we believe that our best baseball is in front of us." It is, at least when the Pirates play the struggling Cincinnati Reds. Josh Harrison hit a two-run homer, Colin Moran and Elias Diaz added solo shots and the Pirates pulled away for a 6-2 victory on Saturday to push their modest winning streak to three and assuring themselves of their first positive series since taking a two-game set from the Chicago White Sox a month ago. read more http://www.espn.com/mlb/recap?gameId=380616123
