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Break up the Buccos

Realizing that nothing less than the fate of humanity was at stake, umpire Jerry Meals overturned what would have been a game-winning home run in an attempt to thwart a Pittsburgh Pirates four-game winning streak and, indeed, the end of the world as we know it.

In the bottom of the ninth today against the Brewers, Bucs’ second baseman Jose Castillo (who, in another sign of the apocalypse, had six homers in his five previous games) launched blast that was originally ruled a walk-off home run off the top of PNC Park’s right-field wall.

Believing the game - and perhaps the world - was over, the two teams adjourned to their locker rooms to contact loved ones and pray for their very souls. Coming to grips with the magnitude of their decision, umpires convened and changed the call to a ground-rule double after the skies blackened and the curtain in the temple was rent in two.

Nonetheless, after the teams returned to the field, Castillo came around to score on Ryan Doumit’s single on the next at-bat to seal the Pirates’ win and the planet’s doom.

With the 4-3 victory, the Pirates, who had not won more than two in a row all season, completed a four-game sweep of the Brewers. They have won six of seven on their latest homestand, scoring 60 runs over that span.

Mankind’s descent toward the End Times continues unabated.

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