PIT Post-Gazette: McLouth’s ninth-inning blast ignites Pirates

One of these days, Nate McLouth is going to come back and touch Terra Firma.

Not quite yet, apparently. He stepped to the plate with two outs in the ninth inning, his team down a run, two aboard and one of the game’s finer closers, Los Angeles’ Takashi Saito, on the mound.

Crack! Three-run home run. Thirteen-game hitting streak.

And, after closer Matt Capps went 1-2-3 in the bottom half for his fourth save, the Pirates had their most uplifting victory of the young season, 6-4, last night at Dodger Stadium.

And a four-game winning streak, one shy of their 2007 high. And a record one game above .500 at 7-6.
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McLouth’s remarkable batting average is .383 and his RBI count, despite batting leadoff most nights, is tied for the team high at 14.