The Pittsburgh Pirates are currently without one of their top players, who recently suffered an injury that has kept him out the past few games. Pi

Each of the last five games between the Pirates and Cubs have been decided by one run (Cubs have won three of the five). The last time there was a streak that long in the series was in 1992.

BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Pirates host the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday to open a three-game series. Pittsburgh has gone 34-29 at home and 52-73 overall. Pirates pitchers have a collective 4.04 ERA, which ranks eighth in the NL.

With one swing, Jack Suwinski rallied the Pittsburgh Pirates back into the game against the San Francisco Giants. But it was Suwinski’s head-first slide past catcher Patrick Bailey’s planted spike that beat the tag at home plate and scored the game-winning run that led the Pirates to a comeback victory.

Jack Suwinski hit a tiebreaking solo homer in the ninth inning to give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 3-2 win over the struggling Chicago Cubs on Friday. Suwinski, a Chicago native, hit Daniel