Milwaukee Brewers at Pittsburgh Pirates

With the MLB Draft looming on Saturday, the Pirates made a deal late Friday night to help the team in the present. Pittsburgh dealt the No. 34 pick and Triple-A pitcher Jaden Woods to the White Sox for infielder Jacob Gonzalez and left-handed reliever Brandon Eisert. Even as the excitement surrounded Pittsburgh’s first few rounds of the MLB Draft and the trade on Friday, it still had two of its biggest games of the year to play. Against the NL Central-leading Brewers, the Pirates swept the doubleheader, winning both games by a one-run margin (7-6 in Game 1 and 3-2 in Game 2), as the bullpen allowed one run in a combined 8 1/3 innings. “Two huge wins and two different ways that we accomplish that today,” Pirates manager Don Kelly said. With All-Star Braxton Ashcraft on the mound in Game 1, the Pirates fell behind, 6-3, but battled back with some magic. Esmerlyn Valdez, also known as “The Magician,” tallied six RBIs. With the Pirates trailing in the seventh, Valdez hit a towering grand slam for his second home run of the game and the lead. On in relief of Ashcraft, Carmen Mlodzinski allowed one run in three innings to stretch the game to the ninth for Gregory Soto. While loading the bases, Soto worked a 5-2 double play to end the game and secure a victory to open the series. Between games, Gonzalez and Eisert were activated for the Pirates. Gonzalez arrived from Charlotte in the fifth inning of the first game, while Eisert walked into the clubhouse around 2:20, played catch and was ready to go. “\[It’s\