Pittsburgh Pirates general manager Neal Huntington spent the hours leading up to the non-waiver trade deadline searching for a way to upgrade the team with the best record in baseball. The typically buttoned down Huntington even considered taking leave of his senses to do it. "We talk a lot about, we don't want to do something stupid," Huntington said Wednesday after the deadline passed. "We were willing to do something stupid. We just didn't want to do anything insane." At the moment, insanity might be defined as breaking up the chemistry the Pirates have spent the last four months cultivating. Russell Martin drove home Neil Walker with the go-ahead run in the eighth inning and the Pirates rallied past the St. Louis Cardinals 5-4 to extend their lead in the NL Central to 2½ games. Read more http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=330731123&teams=st.-louis-cardinals-vs-pittsburgh-pirates
