The night the Pirates died: Pittsburgh baseball hasn't recov

Pittsburgh now is exactly 30 years removed from the worst sports defeat in its history, a 3-2 loss to the Atlanta Braves, which kept the Pirates out of the World Series then, and perhaps forever.

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