Article: Push comes to shove for Cardinals, Pirates.

Byline: Rick Hummel

PITTSBURGH _ The silliness and finger-pointing that has marked the Cardinals-Pittsburgh rivalry over the past two seasons boiled over a couple of hours before Wednesday night's game when Cardinals pitching coach Dave Duncan got into it with Pirates manager Lloyd McClendon and hitting coach Gerald Perry behind the batting cage.

By several accounts, including some Fox television footage, Perry landed a punch to Duncan's jaw. Upset with Perry, Duncan then may have made contact with McClendon, but there was no pictorial evidence of that.

Both teams crowded around the batting cage during the incident, which occurred as the ...

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