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Andrew McCutchen drives in three runs on chaotic Little League homer

Pittsburgh Pirates star Andrew McCutchen had a huge game in Wednesday's 10-3 victory against the Minnesota Twins.

In the fifth inning, McCutchen clubbed a conventional two-run homer against Twins starter Ervin Santana, which tied the game 3-3. The very next inning, Pittsburgh had jumped out to a 5-3 lead on a Santana wild pitch and a sacrifice fly from Starling Marte. That set the stage for McCutchen to blow the game wide open, which is exactly what he did, though this time the outcome was anything but conventional.

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With runners at first and second and two outs, McCutchen laced a would-be single to right field that Minnesota right fielder Eddie Rosario aggressively misplayed in a disaster. Rosario was obviously looking to come up throwing somewhere, perhaps home or perhaps to third base, looking to cut down one of the runners and end the rally. Instead, he only added fuel to the fire by allowing the baseball to skip over his left shoulder all the way to the wall.

With Pirates flying around the bases, Rosario rather casually chased the ball down. Once secured, he made a strong throw into All-Star second baseman Brian Dozier, and that's when the real chaos began.

Yes, everything to that point was the appetizer.

Dozier's relay throw ended up sailing over the head of shortstop Eduardo Escobar and somehow skipped right through the legs of third baseman Eduardo Nunez. At that point, two runs had already scored and McCutchen was standing on third base satisfied with everything that had just gone down, but here now was a chance to complete a rare Little League home run.

McCutchen went for it, and after about two steps crashed directly into Nunez, who was chasing the ball. Both went down, but McCutchen was awarded home plate on an obstruction call.

Little League home run complete. Three more runs on the board. Oh, and yes, there were errors charged as well. Rosario was given an error for his misplay in the outfield, and Nunez was also charged for letting the ball trickle through his legs. For McCutchen, it was a single, one RBI and one memorable trip around the bases.

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Of course, because he's Andrew McCutchen, his day wouldn't be complete without a highlight in the outfield as well. In the fourth inning, he robbed Kurt Suzuki of extra bases with a running catch in center field that ended with McCutchen banging into the wall.

Once again, Andrew McCutchen was everywhere and in the middle of everything, which is why he's a perennial MVP candidate.

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Mark Townsend is a writer for Big League Stew on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at bigleaguestew@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter!