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10:10 pm EDT Thu Apr 29, 2010

After one of the worst seven-game stretches in major league history, the Pittsburgh Pirates finally have at least some room for optimism. The Los Angeles Dodgers are finding it much more difficult to be positive these days. The Dodgers come home from an ugly nine-game road trip having dropped four straight, and they’ll hope to pass their misery back to the Pirates when the teams begin a four-game set Thursday night. Los Angeles dropped two of three at Pittsburgh to start the season, and was 6-6 heading into a nine-game road trip that began April 20 in Cincinnati. The Dodgers limped home from the trip losers of seven of nine and without the middle-of-the-order presence of the injured Manny Ramirez. Los Angeles was held to five hits Wednesday afternoon as the New York Mets extended the Dodgers’ skid with a 7-3 win.
Los Angeles is hitting .192 in six games since Ramirez has gone on the disabled list with a calf strain.

General manager Ned Colletti, who was highly critical of the team in a radio interview Tuesday, had a private five-minute postgame conversation Wednesday with outfielder Matt Kemp, whose defense and baserunning Colletti questioned. All but six of Los Angeles’ 21 games have been played on the road, but they’ll play 10 straight at home beginning against the Pirates, who have been outscored 33-10 in losing five straight at Los Angeles. That margin seems minuscule compared to the one Pittsburgh suffered through during its seven-game skid April 20-26. The Pirates were outscored 72-12 - the worst seven-game margin in more than a century - that included their 22nd loss in a row at Milwaukee on Monday, 17-3. Pittsburgh rallied from a ninth-inning deficit to end the streak Tuesday, getting a solo homer from Ronny Cedeno and a grand slam from Ryan Doumit in a 7-3 victory. On the cusp of defeat again Wednesday, Doumit tied the score 4-4 in the ninth with a solo shot and the Pirates left town with a 6-5, 14-inning win.