McCutchen: Scorer should be fired for giving me error

So much for hometown scoring.

Pirates superstar Andrew McCutchen had strong words for the official scorer of Wednesday's loss against the Chicago Cubs - Pittsburgh's fourth straight defeat - after the All-Star center fielder was given an error on a hard line drive by slugger Anthony Rizzo.

"He smoked it," McCutchen said of Rizzo's third-inning at-bat. "It was a knuckleball. Whoever scored that an error should be fired. That's unbelievable. I did everything I could to catch it."

McCutchen's frustrations appeared to be indicative of Pittsburgh's struggles as a whole. The second-place Pirates scored just five runs during the Cubs' three-game sweep at PNC Park to fall six games behind division-leading Chicago.