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ST. LOUIS -- Mike Leake started strong and fizzled out fast.The St. Louis Cardinals right-hander gave up all five runs in the fifth and sixth innings in a 5-2 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night.Unfortunately, its been the name of the game so far this year, Leake said. I think at some point it will not happen.Leake (5-7) has lost his last three outings with a 6.06 ERA but manager Mike Matheny saw the positives in an up-and-down year from the teams top free agent pickup. The previous start was strong, two earned runs allowed in seven innings against the Royals.I think Mike was about kind of what we hoped for -- he kept us in the game and weve got to make plays to help him, Matheny said. It comes down to the fact that we didnt get many big hits or many hits at all.Leake held the Pirates to two singles the first four innings before getting burned by two former Cardinals. Eighth-place hitter Eric Fryer had an RBI single in a two-run fifth that tied it and a two-run double in a three-run sixth, and David Freese had an RBI single in the sixth.Josh Harrison also had an RBI for Pittsburgh.Freese was missing location. Harrison, thats a good pitch. Fryer did a good job of putting the ball in play, Leake said. They werent terribly located balls, but not the best.The Cardinals released Fryer when backup catcher Brayan Pena came off the 15-day disabled list and the Pirates claimed him off waivers on Sunday. He batted .368 with St. Louis with five RBI in 38 at-bats behind seven-time All-Star Yadier Molina but Pena has a two-year, $5 million contract.The Cardinals got RBI from Jedd Gyorko and Matt Holliday, and Randal Grichuk was a minor bright spot with a pinch-hit single in the ninth. Grichuk was recalled from Triple-A Memphis after Brandon Moss was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a sprained left ankle.It feels great, Grichuk said. I wasnt down there too long but it felt like it was awhile.Juan Nicasio (7-6) worked two scoreless innings in relief of lefty Steven Brault, who allowed one earned run in four innings while throwing 82 pitches and adding a single in his debut. The 24-year-old Brault pitched in place of fellow rookie Jameson Taillon, placed on the DL on Sunday with shoulder fatigue.The Pirates have taken the first two games of a four-game set and are 7-4 in the season series, closing within one-half game of the second-place Cardinals in the NL Central.Mark Melancon finished for his 21st consecutive save and 25th in 26 chances.Pirates third baseman Jung Ho Kang, under investigation by Chicago police on an allegation of sexual assault, singled pinch-hitting to open the ninth.HOT BOXHarrison stayed alive in a rundown between third and home long enough for the hitter and runner to take two bases in the fifth. The Cardinals finally got him out on a play scored 3-2-5-3-6-4.TRAINERS ROOMPirates: RHP Ryan Vogelsong (facial fracture) threw 61 pitches in a four-inning simulated game. ... RHP Gerrit Cole (biceps) struck out six and allowed two hits for Triple-A Indianapolis to begin a rehab start.Cardinals: SS Jhonny Peralta was taken out after three innings with discomfort in his left thumb. The team said it was unrelated to the surgery for a torn thumb ligament in March.SLUMPINGMatt Adams, who replaced Peralta in the lineup, is in an 0-for-31 slump.UP NEXTPirates: Jeff Locke (8-5, 5.13) has won his last three starts with a 1.93 ERA and bested Oakland ace Sonny Gray his last time out.Cardinals: Jaime Garcia (6-6, 3.84) allowed one run in eight innings against the Brewers his last time out. He has a 0.57 ERA against Pittsburgh in six games, four starts.Ingrosso Scarpe Adidas . The 43-year-old closer, in his 19th and final big league season, has said hed like to play the outfield. 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Scarpe Adidas Outlet . Scott won the Australian PGA last week in his first event in Australia since winning the U.S. Masters in April. American Matt Kuchar, ahead by two strokes with four to play and even with Scott with one to go, double-bogeyed the 18th after taking two shots to get out of a bunker.Chip Ganassi Racing announced Friday that its Verizon IndyCar Series team will switch to Honda engines and bodywork in 2017, reuniting a combination that produced 77 race wins and nine Indy car championships between 1996 and 2013.Ganassis switch from Chevrolet to Honda should improve the balance of competition between engine manufacturers in the IndyCar Series. Since aero kits were introduced in 2015, Chevrolet bodied cars have won 24 of 32 races, including 14 out of 16 in 2016.The Honda-Ganassi association is one of the most successful in the history of Hondas North American racing programs, said Art St. Cyr, president of Honda Performance Development. We welcome the return of our partnership, and look forward to returning to Victory Circle together in 2017.Weve had a long and successful relationship with Honda over the years and we look forward to getting it back on track, team owner Chip Ganassi added. I feel a little like I am going home after having previously spent 12 years with them.Much of our organizations success has been with Honda power in our cars so we are all very excited.ddddddddddddDrivers who won Indy car championships driving Honda-powered Ganassi entries include Jimmy Vasser, Alex Zanardi, Juan Pablo Montoya, Dario Franchitti, and Scott Dixon.Four-time IndyCar series titlist Dixon returns to anchor what is expected to remain a four-car Ganassi attack in 2017. Charlie Kimball has been confirmed for at least one other Ganassi car, while the status of 2016 drivers Tony Kanaan and Max Chilton has not been resolved.Dixon won the 2015 IndyCar Series championship for Ganassi in a Chevrolet.Chip Ganassi Racing has been a great partner of ours, with a championship last year and what theyve contributed this year, said Mark Kent, director of racing for General Motors.The Ganassi teams move to Honda for 2017 is expected to result in at least one current Honda team swapping over to Chevrolet, with A.J. Foyt Racing and Dale Coyne Racing the most likely candidates. ' ' '