PITTSBURGH -- The only thing Andre Dawson's two late-inningsgrand slams brought the Chicago Cubs this weekend was two heartbreaking losses to Pittsburgh.
For the second time in the four-game series, the Pirates negated Dawson's grand blast with some bigger late-inning heroics Sunday by scoring six runs in the bottom of the 11th for a wild 13-12 victory over the Cubs.
Don Slaught's two-run double in the 11th inning capped the rally as the Pirates overcame a 12-7 deficit to stretch Chicago's losing streak to three games.
'It was weird,' said Pittsburgh's Barry Bonds, who scored the winning run. 'Here's a series when the Hawk (Dawson) hits two grand slams. You do that and you're supposed to win. That just doesn't seem right.'
On Sunday, the Pirates twice had to rally from five-run deficits in a game played in 45-degree temperatures and a steady downpour.
'These are the type of games you really want to win,' Bobby Bonilla said. 'This team showed a lot of character. I think it send a good message and feeling throughout this clubhouse that you hold us in the game, we have a good chance of coming back. It was a beautiful, beautiful victory for us.'
Jose Lind led off with a walk in the 11th against Heathcliff Slocumb, and Curtis Wilkerson and Orlando Merced followed with singles to load the bases. Jay Bell greeted Mike Bielecki, 2-1, with a two-run double and Andy Van Slyke's sacrifice fly pulled the Pirates within 12-10.
Bobby Bonilla followed with a walk and Barry Bonds, who had struck out four times in the game, single Bell home. Gary Redus walked on a 3-2 pitch and Slaught followed with his double over the head of center fielder Jerome Walton.
'It's been a weird last couple days,' Bielecki said. 'It was a tough game all the way around. Weird. Three grand slams in three days. This game we score five runs in the late innings ... I don't know how to explain it. I just know I didn't do my job.'
The improbable rally gave the win to Bob Patterson, 1-0, who pitched one inning of relief.
Chicago had scored five runs in the top of the 11th on Doug Dascenzo's RBI single and a grand slam by Andre Dawson.
Erik Pappas and Jose Vizcaino led off the 11th with walks off Bob Kipper, 1-2, who was relieved by Patterson. Walton attempted to bunt the runners over, but first baseman Merced forced Pappas at third. Ryne Sandberg singled to load the bases, and Luis Salazar hit a hard grounder to third baseman Wilkerson, who threw out Vizcaino at home.
Dascenzo followed with a single to score Walton and Dawson, who hit a pinch-hit grand slam Friday night, belted a 1-2 pitch over the right- field wall for his sixth career grand slam.
'I can't say enough about today,' Dawson said. 'It's a tough loss. It was a strange game on a strange day. It was cold and miserable and we had been out there for about four hours. You score five runs and they only have one chance to beat you, you figure you're going to get out of it.'
The Pirates, after trailing 7-2, scored four runs in the eighth and one in the ninth to send the game into extra innings. Pittsburgh pulled within a run in the eighth on Merced's two-run triple and a two-run homer by Bonilla.
Pittsburgh then tied the score in the ninth off reliever Dave Smith. Jeff King singled, was sacrificed to second and scored on pinch-hitter Gary Varsho's two-out double.
The Pirates took a 2-0 lead in the fifth on an RBI double by Mike LaValliere and Jose Lind's sacrifice fly, but Chicago took a 3-2 lead in the sixth on Sandberg's RBI double, a Mark Grace sacrifice fly and Dawson's run-scoring single.
Chicago tallied four more runs in the eighth to take a 7-2 lead. Grace was hit by a pitch from Neal Heaton to open the inning. Mark Huismann relieved and immediately surrendered a run-scoring double to George Bell.
Dascenzo pinch-ran for George Bell and Dunston was intentionally walked. Shortstop Jay Bell committed a throwing error on Gary Scott's grounder, allowing both runners to score, and Pappas followed with RBI single for his first major-league hit.
