"Somewhere between Yovani Gallardo pitching predominance and the baseball blood feud with the Brewers, the Pirates on Thursday lost a game but not their hot streak.

This hot streak, though, ran down their backs rather than through their bats.

In the end this night of a 3-2 Milwaukee triumph, its 10th in 11 Gallardo career starts against the Pirates, there was a batter plunked by a pitch from each side, though there was the one that trailed behind Jose Tabata for a ball-four and a warning to each dugout. There was a collision at home plate between Prince Fielder, a gent approaching 300 pounds, and backup catcher Erik Kratz, starting his third major-league game all because the regular, Ryan Doumit, was placed on the disabled list hours earlier after a home-plate collision the night before. There was, you know, that old Pirates-Brewers feeling.

Was there intent on the visitors' part to purposefully plunk Delwyn Young in the fifth inning by Gallardo and throw behind Tabata -- who many in the 18,715 crowd at PNC Park booed after thinking he got hit -- in the seventh by reliever Todd Coffey?

"Absolutely," Pirates manager John Russell said."