WASHINGTON -- The road hasn’t been kind to the Pirates this year. This late-season trip to Baltimore and the nation’s capital will go down as one of the rougher ones.

The Pirates were in every contest, but were able to win only one of their six games, dropping the rubber match to the Nationals at Nationals Park on Sunday, 4-3 . Each of those five losses was by one run, which has been a recurring theme this season.

Sunday marked the 33rd time this season the Pirates lost by one run, second behind the Braves for the most in baseball. It’s the most one-run losses they’ve had in a season since 1986, when they fell 37 times by just one tally.

Now 65-85 on the season, the Pirates are likely going to regress from the 76-86 record they posted each of the past two seasons, but given their 24-3

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