2-minute Drill: Archer, Pirates Hold off Cubs to Reach 80 Wins


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  • Slugger Kris Bryant exited with a bruised left wrist, Mike Montgomery got hit hard over four-plus innings and the Chicago Cubs stumbled again in their playoff run with a 6-0 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night.
  • When practice ended Tuesday afternoon in Cranberry, coach Mike Sullivan offered a list of caveats as long as his arm.
  • Through three weeks, perennial All-Pro Antonio Brown is on pace for his least productive season in six years. Ben Roethlisberger has a theory why.
  • Any football fan who has turned on an NFL game over the first three weeks of the season has noticed the league’s increased emphasis on protecting quarterbacks. There have been more than twice as many >rougher-the-passer flags thrown this year than last year at the same point in the season.
  • How good is Penn State really? It’s probably the question fans have asked more han any other now four games into the season.

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