Clint Hurdle says a prayer each morning.

Maybe more than one, but recently he’s been working in a specific request.

“I say, ‘Give me the strength and courage to burden my pain so that my pain doesn’t become a burden for others,’” Hurdle said of his appeal.

We might all be able to see the badges of his pain — the constant limp and his inability to sit down in the dugout — but it’s impossible to quantify precisely what the Pirates manager is physically going through as his team navigates into the center of a Division and Wild Card race.
You see, all the way back to the beginning of the season, it was apparent to Hurdle that he needed hip-replacement surgery after an off-season doctor visit yielded a chronic arthritis diagnosis........

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