Your daily sports update.
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- The Pirates are undefeated after their 5-4 victory Monday in the home opener at PNC Park.
- For the next week, four teams in the Metropolitan Division — the Penguins, Columbus, Philadelphia and New Jersey — will battle feverishly for the right to open the Stanley Cup playoffs at home.
- X-rays were negative on the pinky finger of Pirates shortstop Jordy Mercer’s right hand, an injury that forced him to leave the game in the fourth inning of the home opener Monday.
- It’s the kind of mark no offense wants to set, but nonetheless, after the Chicago Cubs struck out 11 times in a 1-0 loss to the Cincinnati Reds on Monday afternoon, the 2016 World Series winners have now whiffed the most times — 58 — of any NL team ever through its first five games.
- Lost somewhat in the entire saga of Tony Carr’s NBA future is that he has been chasing this moment his entire life. Not taking Penn State to the NCAA Tournament, not winning the NIT, not playing four years at the collegiate level.