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PHILADELPHIA -- Chad Kuhls fan club brought the noise.Andrew McCutchen hit two solo homers, Kuhl pitched six effective innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Philadelphia Phillies 15-2 Thursday night.Jordy Mercer hit a three-run homer and John Jaso and Sean Rodriguez also went deep to help the Pirates split a four-game series.Kuhl (4-3) allowed two runs and four hits, striking out five. He retired the first 12 batters before Tommy Joseph lined a double to right-center in the fifth.The righty grew up in nearby Delaware and more than 100 of his family, friends and acquaintances turned out to show their support. Many of them sat behind Pittsburghs dugout.It was loud, Kuhl said.Pirates manager Clint Hurdle was amused to see so much enthusiasm on the road.Now we know what it sounded like when Chad played Little League, Hurdle said. It was very entertaining. They were cheering every pitch. It was fun.Kuhl hid his emotions well.I was definitely amped up, seeing people I hadnt seen since I was maybe 12 years old, he said. I was nervous. I tried to block it out.Phillies starter Jerad Eickhoff (10-14) gave up six runs -- three earned -- and five hits (four homers) in 6 2/3 innings.I feel like I let the guys down in here, he said. These guys are fighting. I have to live with that. Thats the most frustrating thing.Jaso led off the game with his sixth homer. McCutchen drove one out to center in the fourth. Rodriguez connected in the fifth to make it 3-0.Mercers shot increased the Pirates lead to 6-2 in the seventh. McCutchen hit his 23rd homer off Frank Herrmann in the eighth.BUSTING OUTThe Pirates had seven hits and eight runs in the ninth to put the game way out of reach.BARRYS NEXTMcCutchen has 174 career homers with the Pirates. He trails Barry Bonds by two for fourth place on Pittsburghs all-time home run list.MINOR SHAKEUPDusty Wathan, who led Double-A Reading to the best record in the Eastern League this season and a second consecutive Eastern Division championship, will manage Philadelphias Triple-A affiliate, Lehigh Valley, in 2017. Wathan replaces Dave Brundage.PROPER GOODBYEPhillies manager Pete Mackanin plans to start Ryan Howard all three games of the season-ending home series vs. the Mets on Sept. 30-Oct. 2. The 2006 NL MVP is the last player remaining from Philadelphias 2008 World Series championship team. The Phillies will exercise a $10 million buyout after the season ends, so Howard is down to his final games in red pinstripes.HEY A.J.Former Pirates and Phillies pitcher A.J. Burnett drove from Maryland to Philadelphia to see two of his former teams. He watched the Pirates take batting practice on the field and chatted with many of his old teammates.UP NEXTPirates: RHP Ryan Vogelsong (3-5, 4.66 ERA) starts the opener of a four-game series at Cincinnati. RHP Robert Stephenson (2-1, 4.43) goes for the Reds.Phillies: LHP Adam Morgan (2-10, 5.73) takes the mound in the start of a three-game series vs. Miami. RHP Tom Koehler (9-11, 3.97) pitches for the Marlins. Fran Tarkenton Youth Jersey . -- Stanford squashed Oregons national championship hopes again, schooling the Ducks in power football. Mike Hughes Vikings Jersey . Westbrook has missed 27 games since having a procedure on Dec. 27 to deal with swelling in his injured right knee — the third operation on the knee in nine months. http://www.authenticvikingspro.com/ . Tests earlier this week revealed a Grade 2 left hamstring strain for Sabathia, who was hurt in last Fridays start against San Francisco. Its an injury that will require about eight weeks to heal. 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A new elimination-style qualifying format lasted just two races before being scrapped, while track limits and team radio communications are just some of the rules to have come under scrutiny in recent weeks.Ahead of the German Grand Prix, a Strategy Group meeting led to the lifting of restrictions on team radio messages amid a plethora of complaints from teams and drivers, as well as the decision to red-flag qualifying sessions if there are double waved yellow flags -- following the controversy surrounding Nico Rosbergs pole lap in Hungary.Definitely it is not the normal way for our sport to keep changing rules, Alonso bemoaned. Most of the time we go back to what we had two weeks ago, two months ago, twoo years ago.ddddddddddddSo we just wait and listen to the engineers, the team, what we are allowed to do, what we are not allowed to do every session, every qualifying, every race and that has been more or less the same thing for the last three or four months, because they keep changing all the time.The double world champion stressed the importance of having stability in F1s rules and claimed that constant rule changes risk making the sport harder to follow for fans.We are always in a loop and from a driver point of view, we just try to be on the side of all these changes because we dont make them and we dont have these decisions in our hands.Hopefully now we can find some consistency but, for us, it is not a problem because it is our job but for the fans and the viewers it would be nice to have some consistency. ' ' '