PIRATES Makeup set for Thursday at Texas

It's the seventh rainout for the Bucs this season -- their most since 1984.
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- So far, the Pittsburgh Pirates aren't enjoying their first visit with the Texas Rangers. And it just got longer.
After losing the series opener 6-5 in 10 innings on two wind-aided hits, the Pirates watched it rain all day Tuesday before their game against Texas was finally called 45 minutes before its scheduled start.
"We're banged up a little bit, so we can certainly use the rest," Pirates manager Lloyd McClendon said. "But once you're here, you'd like to play."
The game will be made up Thursday night, which was a scheduled off day for both teams.
The two teams weren't scheduled to play again after this three-game series.
"I'd like to play two tomorrow, but it's not our choice," McClendon said.
To make things worse, the Pirates will have to switch hotels tonight because the place they are staying is already booked, when they were scheduled to fly to Oakland for their next series.
Weather woes
It was the seventh Pirates' game postponed by weather, the most since they had also had seven in 1984. They still have to make up three games.
Rain started overnight and continued throughout the day. The tarp was never removed from the infield, though some players from both teams tossed balls in the outfield before the game was called.
The Rangers were postponed just once before this year, an April 30 game against Boston that was rescheduled as part of a doubleheader the next day. Texas swept that doubleheader and the three-game series.
Oliver Perez (3-3) and Texas' Joaquin Benoit (2-2), the scheduled starters for Tuesday, were scheduled to pitch tonight.
Pittsburgh's Josh Fogg (3-4) and Kenny Rogers (8-2) are to throw Thursday.