Sideline Chatter: Maybe he’d been waiting for a text to steal a base

You make the call: (1) out; (2) safe; (3) you’re safe but your cellphone is out! Pirates rookie Rodolfo Castro slid safely into third base in a 6-4 win over the D-backs — but the impact knocked his phone out of his back pocket. He didn’t realize the gaffe until umpire Adam Hamari pointed it out. “You stay around the game and you see things you haven’t seen before,’’ Pirates manager Derek Shelton told AP. “It’s just one of those things we move forward from and tell him, ‘You can’t do that.’ ’’ Headlines— At TheBeaverton.com: “ ‘How do we make baseball more exciting?’ asks only sport with mandat…

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