Go back to opening day. That was the last time the Pirates had three consecutive batters, in the so-called meat of their order, combine for seven RBIs. Garrett Jones, Ryan Doumit and Lastings Milledge were their Nos. 3, 4 and 5 hitters. The next time? Game No. 134, and it marked the first time that their Nos. 4, 5 and 6 batters combined for so many: Jones, Pedro Alvarez and Doumit. (Today)

What a week and a half Washington's Nyjer Morgan is having. In the past 10 days, the popular former Pirates outfielder: Received a total of 15 games in suspensions, eight Friday for the beanball brawl Wednesday in Florida and seven more Aug. 25 from exchanges with fans in Philadelphia. (Today)

Nyjer Morgan's wild week landed him an eight-game suspension, one of nine punishments handed out Friday by Major League Baseball after a brawl between Washington Nationals and Florida Marlins. MLB suspended Nationals outfielder Morgan and fined him an undisclosed amount for three separate incidents the past week. The penalty Friday is in addition to a seven-game suspension he received Aug. (Today)

The middle of the Pirates order combined for its most RBIs since opening day, and former failed Nationals closer Joel Hanrahan shut the door on his former Washington employers in an 8-5 Pirates triumph before 19,734 at PNC Park tonight. (Yesterday)

CHICAGO -- Exactly a month from today, the Pirates will be packing their bags in Miami and mercifully concluding this 2010 season already destined to finish as one of the franchise's worst. That destiny alone would appear to set up the coming month as possibly the least relevant, least urgent in recent memory. But is it? (Yesterday)