
Andrew McCutchen made a ''minor'' adjustment in the batter's box a couple weeks ago hoping to give him a fraction of a second longer to see what's coming. McCutchen hit his eighth homer and drove in three runs to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 6-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Monday night. ''When I get the barrel to it, good things happen,'' McCutchen said. ''That's basically what I'm doing.'' McCutchen drove a two-run shot to right field in the third inning then added an RBI-double in the fifth off Edwin Jackson (4-6) as the Pirates bounced back from two tough losses to Milwaukee over the weekend in which they left a combined 18 runners on base.
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