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Updated Aug 21, 2011 11:45 AM ET

PITTSBURGH (AP)

The Pittsburgh Pirates have signed outfielder Jose Tabata to a six-year contract extension.

The Pirates announced Sunday that the deal comes with club options for 2017, 2018 and 2019.

The 23-year-old Tabata is hitting .267 with 17 RBIs in 75 games this year with the Pirates. He also has four home runs, 14 doubles and 15 stolen bases.

Tabata made his Major League debut last year on June 9 and hit .299 with 35 RBIs in 102 games.

Following the All-Star break, he produced a .322 average, which ranked seventh among all National League hitters. He had 93 hits, second in the league behind Colorado’s Carlos Gonzalez.

Tabata was acquired by the Pirates from the New York Yankees in 2008.

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PITTSBURGH (AP)—The Pittsburgh Pirates have signed outfielder Jose Tabata(notes)
to a six-year contract extension.

The Pirates announced Sunday that the deal comes with club options for 2017,
2018 and 2019.

The 23-year-old Tabata is hitting .267 with 17 RBIs in 75 games this year
with the Pirates. He also has four home runs, 14 doubles and 15 stolen bases.

Tabata made his Major League debut last year on June 9 and hit .299 with 35
RBIs in 102 games.

Following the All-Star break, he produced a .322 average, which ranked
seventh among all National League hitters. He had 93 hits, second in the league
behind Colorado’s Carlos Gonzalez(notes).

Tabata was acquired by the Pirates from the New York Yankees in 2008.

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All season, the Philadelphia Phillies have waited to have their entire everyday lineup available.

Friday, they finally got it. What it didn’t get was any sustained offense.

Cole Hamels allowed only one hit in eight innings, but the Phillies managed only six hits in a 2-1, 12-inning loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

“We didn’t hit,” Philadelphia manager Charlie Manuel said. “We need to score some runs. Hamels pitched very good. The bullpen was good. We went five innings where we didn’t square a ball up. We went 15 outs and didn’t hit a ball on the nose.”

Jose Tabata hit a game-ending single with two outs in the 12th inning as the Phillies lost their third consecutive game for only the second time this season.

Philadelphia has scored only four runs in those three games.

“I think this lineup is going to hit,” Manuel said. “It has to hit. I’ve got confidence in those guys hitting. I’ve seen those guys hit for four or five years, some of those guys for six or seven years. I don’t see any reason why we won’t hit. We can get started any time we want, though. That’s how I look at it. I like the lineup.”

Outfielder Shane Victorino was activated from the disabled list Friday; he, Chase Utley, Ruiz and Domonic Brown had all missed parts of the season thus far with injury.

But having all their regulars available did little to help an offense that ranks a pedestrian 18th in the majors in runs.

“It’s good to have everyone together,” Hamels said. “Now we need to try to keep guys healthy, go out and play to the best of our ability and try to get on a positive roll.”

Tabata smacked a sinking liner off of Danys Baez (1-3) toward the hole on the right side that a lunging Utley got a glove on but could not handle. Right fielder Ben Francisco’s throw was not in time, giving Tabata his second RBI of the game when Xavier Paul scored from second. Paul had singled with two outs and stole a base.

Pittsburgh won for the third time in four games.

Hamels and Jeff Karstens had dueling one-hitters going through five innings.

“I really felt fortunate to get out of it by giving up only one run,” Hamels said. “I wasn’t happy about how I executed my pitches. A lot of guys hit balls hard but they were right at guys. We played good defense and that saved me.”

Daniel Moskos (1-0) earned his first major league win for Pittsburgh.

Moskos worked a perfect top of the 12th — surviving a Carlos Ruiz fly to the warning track in right-center.

The crowd of 33,861 was the Pirates’ third-largest of the season — heavily aided by several thousand Phillies fans who had made the cross-state drive.

Jimmy Rollins led of the game with an infield single, but Karstens retired 15 of the next 16 he faced.

After Karstens hit Ryan Howard with a pitch later in the first, the Phillies didn’t have another baserunner until the sixth. They had two on and none out with the heart of their order coming up, prompting the sea of red in the stands to start chanting “Let’s go Phillies!”

Placido Polanco lined into a double play, but Rollins stole second, and Utley drove him in when he softly lined a single that found its way through the right side of the infield.

The Pirates tied the game at 1 in the bottom of the inning without a hit.

Cedeno led off with a walk and was sacrificed to second by Karstens. A wild pitch got him to third and he scored when Tabata flew out to deep right.

Karstens, who had two strikeouts and did not walk a batter, continued a recent stretch of good Pirates starting pitching. Paul Maholm allowed six earned runs in Pittsburgh’s previous game Thursday, snapping a streak of 13 games in which starters allowed two earned runs or less.

“We know what their starting staff is like, and we know what our job is: Try to go out there and keep pace with Cole and give our team a chance to win,” Karstens said. “It took a little longer than we wanted but we eventually got the big hit in the 12th.

“It was a fun game,” Karstens said.

Hamels pitched well enough to win what would have been his fourth consecutive start for the third time in his career and tie Pittsburgh’s Kevin Correia for the majors’ lead in victories with eight. He has allowed only 20 earned runs over his past 11 starts.

“He was really sharp, Hamels,” Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. “There wasn’t a lot of hittable balls for us.”

NOTES: The walkoff hit was Tabata’s second of the season, the other coming April 8 against Colorado. … Victorino, out since May 18 with a strained right hamstring, went 0 for 5. … The Pirates are 21-12 against the Phillies at 10-year-old PNC Park. … Philadelphia has lost nine of its past 14 road games. … The only other time Philadelphia lost as many as three in a row was a four-game skid May 14-17. … .. Rollins stole two bases, extending the Phillies’ streak to 11 consecutive successful steals and 23 out of 24.

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jose Tabata hit a game-ending single with two outs in the 12th inning, lifting the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 2-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies in a game without an extra-base hit.

Tabata smacked a sinking liner off of Danys Baez (1-3) into the hole on the right side that a lunging second baseman Chase Utley could not handle. Right fielder Ben Francisco’s throw was not in time, giving Tabata his second RBI of the game when Xavier Paul scored from second. Paul had singling with two outs and stole a base.

Pittsburgh won for the third time in four games.

The Phillies lost their third consecutive game for only the second time this season, despite starter Cole Hamels allowing only one hit in eight innings.

Hamels and Jeff Karstens had dueling one-hitters going through five innings. Karstens was charged with four hits in seven innings.

Daniel Moskos (1-0) earned his first major league win for Pittsburgh, which had the winning run in scoring position in the ninth, 10th and 11th innings.

Moskos worked a perfect top of the 12th — surviving a Carlos Ruiz fly to the warning track in right-center.

The crowd of 33,861 was the Pirates’ third-largest of the season — heavily aided by several thousand Phillies fans who had made the cross-state drive.

The ones who did got to see Philadelphia’s full everyday lineup for the first time this season. Shane Victorino was activated from the disabled list Friday; he, Chase Utley, Ruiz and Domonic Brown had all missed parts of the season thus far with injury.

But having all their regulars available did little to help an offense that ranks a pedestrian 18th in the majors in runs.

Jimmy Rollins led of the game with an infield single, but Karstens retired 15 of the next 16 he faced.

After Karstens hit Ryan Howard with a pitch later in the first, the Phillies didn’t have another baserunner until the sixth. They had two on and none out with the heart of their order coming up, prompting the sea of red in the stands to start chanting “Let’s go Phillies!”

Placido Polanco lined sharply to third — right at Josh Harrison, who turned and fired to second, where Neil Walker doubled off Hamels.

But Rollins stole second — just beating Ronny Cedeno’s tag on a throw that beat him to the bag, a play which elicited arguments from Cedeno and Pirates manager Clint Hurdle. Utley drove him in when he softly lined a single that found its way through the right side of the infield.

The Pirates tied the game at 1 in the bottom of the inning without a hit.

Cedeno led off with a walk and was sacrificed to second by Karstens. A wild pitch got him to third and he scored when Tabata flew out to deep right.

Karstens, who had two strikeouts and did not walk a batter, continued a recent stretch of good Pirates starting pitching. Paul Maholm allowed six earned runs in Pittsburgh’s previous game Thursday, snapping a streak of 13 games in which starters allowed two earned runs or less.

Hamels pitched well enough to win what would have been his fourth consecutive start for the third time in his career and tie Pittsburgh’s Kevin Correia for the majors’ lead in victories with eight. He has allowed only 20 earned runs over his past 11 starts.

NOTES: The walk-off hit was Tabata’s second of the season, the other coming April 8 against Colorado. … Victorino, out since May 18 with a strained right hamstring, went 0 for 5. … Rollins stole two bases, extending the Phillies’ streak to 11 consecutive successful steals and 23 out of 24. … The Pirates are 21-12 against the Phillies at 10-year-old PNC Park. … Philadelphia has lost nine of its past 14 road games. … The only other time Philadelphia lost as many as three in a row was a four-game skid May 14-17.

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June 3, 2011

PITTSBURGH — With each late inning, Pittsburgh put the potential winning run in scoring position.

In the ninth, 10th and 11th, a Philadelphia reliever walked a Pirates batter, only to strand him at second or third when Pittsburgh couldn’t come up with a clutch hit.

Jose Tabata almost legged out a weak grounder to third with two outs and a man on third in the 10th. He didn’t waste his second such opportunity two innings later.

Tabata hit a game-ending single with two outs in the 12th inning, lifting the Pirates to a 2-1 win over the Phillies in a game without an extra-base hit.

“I think in the moment, you want to win the game so you put a little pressure on yourself,” Tabata said.

“You saw me before with somebody on third base and [not come through],” he added. “But the next time, it’s a new time, and said to myself, ‘OK, this is my moment. Come on.”‘

Tabata smacked a sinking liner off of Danys Baez (1-3) toward the hole on the right side that a lunging second baseman Chase Utley got a glove on but could not handle. Right fielder Ben Francisco’s throw was not in time, giving Tabata his second RBI of the game when Xavier Paul scored from second. Paul had singled with two outs and stole a base.

Pittsburgh won for the third time in four games, beating the four-time reigning National League East champions who have the best record in the NL for the fourth time in five games at PNC Park, dating to last season.

“When you play teams like that, you want to go out there and prove a point,” Paul said. “Make a statement that we can play with these guys. We’re on a little roll here.”

The Phillies lost their third consecutive game for only the second time this season, despite starter Cole Hamels allowing only one hit in eight innings.

Hamels and Jeff Karstens had dueling one-hitters going through five innings. Karstens was charged with four hits in seven innings.

Daniel Moskos (1-0) earned his first major-league win for Pittsburgh.

Moskos worked a perfect top of the 12th — surviving a Carlos Ruiz fly to the warning track in right-center.

“We didn’t hit,” Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said. “We need to score some runs. Hamels pitched very good. The bullpen was good. We went five innings where we didn’t square a ball up. We went 15 outs and didn’t hit a ball on the nose.”

The crowd of 33,861 was the Pirates’ third-largest of the season — heavily aided by several thousand Phillies fans who had made the cross-state drive.

The ones who did got to see Philadelphia’s full everyday lineup for the first time this season. Shane Victorino was activated from the disabled list Friday.

But having all their regulars available did little to help an offense that ranks a pedestrian 18th in the majors in runs.

“I think this lineup is going to hit,” Manuel said. “It has to hit. I’ve got confidence in those guys hitting. I’ve seen those guys hit for four or five years, some of those guys for six or seven years.”

Jimmy Rollins led off the game with an infield single, but Karstens retired 15 of the next 16 he faced.

After Karstens hit Ryan Howard with a pitch later in the first, the Phillies didn’t have another baserunner until the sixth. They had two on and none out with the heart of their order coming up, prompting the sea of red in the stands to start chanting “Let’s go Phillies!”

Placido Polanco lined into a double play, but Rollins stole second, and Utley drove him in when he softly lined a single that found its way through the right side of the infield.

The Pirates tied the game at 1 in the bottom of the inning without a hit.

Cedeno led off with a walk and was sacrificed to second by Karstens. A wild pitch got him to third and he scored when Tabata flew out to deep right.

Karstens, who had two strikeouts and did not walk a batter, continued a recent stretch of good Pirates starting pitching. Paul Maholm allowed six earned runs in Pittsburgh’s previous game Thursday, snapping a streak of 13 games in which starters allowed two earned runs or less.

“We know what their starting staff is like, and we know what our job is: Try to go out there and keep pace with Cole and give our team a chance to win,” Karstens said. “It took a little longer than we wanted but we eventually got the big hit in the 12th.

“It was a fun game,” he said.

Hamels pitched well enough to win what would have been his fourth consecutive start for the third time in his career and tie Pittsburgh’s Kevin Correia for the majors’ lead in victories with eight. He has allowed only 20 earned runs over his past 11 starts.

“He was really sharp, Hamels,” Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. “There wasn’t a lot of hittable balls for us.”

Notes

• The walkoff hit was Tabata’s second of the season, the other coming April 8 against Colorado.
• Victorino, out since May 18 with a strained right hamstring, went 0 for 5.
• The Pirates are 21-12 against the Phillies at 10-year-old PNC Park.
• Philadelphia has lost nine of its past 14 road games.
• The only other time Philadelphia lost as many as three in a row was a four-game skid May 14-17.

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PITTSBURGH – Jose Tabata hit a game-ending single with two outs in the 12th inning, lifting the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 2-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies in a game without an extra-base hit.

Tabata smacked a sinking liner off of Danys Baez (1-3) into the hole on the right side that a lunging second baseman Chase Utley could not handle. Right fielder Ben Francisco’s throw was not in time, giving Tabata his second RBI of the game when Xavier Paul scored from second. Paul had singling with two outs and stole a base.

Pittsburgh won for the third time in four games.

The Phillies lost their third consecutive game for only the second time this season, despite starter Cole Hamels allowing only one hit in eight innings.

Hamels and Jeff Karstens had dueling one-hitters going through five innings. Karstens was charged with four hits in seven innings.

Daniel Moskos (1-0) earned his first major league win for Pittsburgh, which had the winning run in scoring position in the ninth, 10th and 11th innings.

Moskos worked a perfect top of the 12th — surviving a Carlos Ruiz fly to the warning track in right-center.

The crowd of 33,861 was the Pirates’ third-largest of the season — heavily aided by several thousand Phillies fans who had made the cross-state drive.

The ones who did got to see Philadelphia’s full everyday lineup for the first time this season. Shane Victorino was activated from the disabled list Friday; he, Chase Utley, Ruiz and Domonic Brown had all missed parts of the season thus far with injury.

But having all their regulars available did little to help an offense that ranks a pedestrian 18th in the majors in runs.

Jimmy Rollins led of the game with an infield single, but Karstens retired 15 of the next 16 he faced.

After Karstens hit Ryan Howard with a pitch later in the first, the Phillies didn’t have another baserunner until the sixth. They had two on and none out with the heart of their order coming up, prompting the sea of red in the stands to start chanting “Let’s go Phillies!”

Placido Polanco lined sharply to third — right at Josh Harrison, who turned and fired to second, where Neil Walker doubled off Hamels.

But Rollins stole second — just beating Ronny Cedeno’s tag on a throw that beat him to the bag, a play which elicited arguments from Cedeno and Pirates manager Clint Hurdle. Utley drove him in when he softly lined a single that found its way through the right side of the infield.

The Pirates tied the game at 1 in the bottom of the inning without a hit.

Cedeno led off with a walk and was sacrificed to second by Karstens. A wild pitch got him to third and he scored when Tabata flew out to deep right.

Karstens, who had two strikeouts and did not walk a batter, continued a recent stretch of good Pirates starting pitching. Paul Maholm allowed six earned runs in Pittsburgh’s previous game Thursday, snapping a streak of 13 games in which starters allowed two earned runs or less.

Hamels pitched well enough to win what would have been his fourth consecutive start for the third time in his career and tie Pittsburgh’s Kevin Correia for the majors’ lead in victories with eight. He has allowed only 20 earned runs over his past 11 starts.

NOTES: The walk-off hit was Tabata’s second of the season, the other coming April 8 against Colorado. … Victorino, out since May 18 with a strained right hamstring, went 0 for 5. … Rollins stole two bases, extending the Phillies’ streak to 11 consecutive successful steals and 23 out of 24. … The Pirates are 21-12 against the Phillies at 10-year-old PNC Park. … Philadelphia has lost nine of its past 14 road games. … The only other time Philadelphia lost as many as three in a row was a four-game skid May 14-17.

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Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) – Andrew McCutchen went 3-for-4 and scored twice, while pinch-hitter Matt Diaz had a two-run single, as the Pittsburgh Pirates downed the reeling Detroit Tigers, 6-2.

Jose Tabata had a pair of hits and touched home twice for the Pirates, who have won a season-high four straight that includes the first two games of this three-game interleague set.

Starting pitcher Kevin Correia (6-4) went 6 2/3 innings for the win, allowing just two runs on seven hits with four strikeouts.

Miguel Cabrera recorded two hits and an RBI for Detroit, which has dropped five straight on the heels of a seven-game winning streak.

Tigers starter Max Scherzer (6-1) suffered his first loss of the season, giving up three runs on seven hits. He fanned seven batters without giving up a walk.

The Pirates finally got after Scherzer and took the lead in the sixth inning.

McCutchen and Tabata started the sixth with singles, which broke up a streak of 10 straight batters retired by Scherzer. Garrett Jones then hit a ground- rule double that one-hopped the fence in right to plate McCutchen and halve the deficit.

Neil Walker’s sacrifice fly, which brought home Tabata, kept the inning going while Lyle Overbay’s sac fly scored Jones for a 3-2 lead. After a Ryan Doumit single, Scherzer was pulled from the game in favor of Ryan Perry, who later got a Ronny Cedeno groundout to end the inning.

Perry’s outing didn’t last long, though, as he gave up a walk and back-to- back singles to load the bases with no outs during the seventh.

Daniel Schlereth entered and gave up a two-run line-drive single to Diaz. Later in the inning, Tabata snuck home for a 6-2 edge before Diaz was caught in a rundown between first and second that ended the seventh.

Joel Hanrahan had a tough task of preserving the win when he entered in the ninth with two runners on base and gave up a single to Brandon Inge to load them. But he got Ryan Raburn to strike out and Austin Jackson grounded into a double play to end the game for his 13th save of the season.

Three consecutive doubles in fourth gave the Tigers a 2-0 lead.

Andy Dirks started the stretch with a deep shot into the left-center gap and scored on a double by Cabrera, who came home on Brennan Boesch’s liner into center.

Jackson went 0-for-5 to end a 12-game hitting streak…Pittsburgh improved to 8-6 against Detroit at home…The Tigers placed reliever Brad Thomas on the 15-day disabled list Saturday with left elbow inflammation. To fill Thomas’ roster spot, the Tigers recalled left-hander Charlie Furbush from Triple-A Toledo…The Pirates placed third baseman Pedro Alvarez on the 15-day disabled list before the game. In a corresponding move, the Pirates added Pedro Ciriaco to the 25-man roster.

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