Octavio Dotel escaped a jam in the ninth inning and Andrew McCutchen collected two more hits, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 4-3 win over the Cubs on Saturday.Jeff Clement hit a solo drive off closer Carlos Marmol in the ninth but the Cubs rallied against Dotel in the bottom half. Starlin Castro walked with one out and scored on Kosuke Fukudome’s triple.With Fukudome on third and the infield in, Dotel struck out Ryan Theriot and Marlon Byrd for his seventh save in nine opportunities.Paul Maholm, who pitched six effective innings for the win, had to turn away when the game got dicey in the ninth.Ryan Church hit a two-run double and McCutchen added an RBI single for Pittsburgh, which has won the first two games of the series after being swept by Cincinnati at home.McCutchen went 2 for 3 with a walk after going 5 for 5 with a homer in Friday’s 10-6 victory. He is 11 for 14 against the Cubs this season.Clement was in a 5-for-33 slump before connecting for his fourth homer.The Cubs have lost seven straight against the Pirates dating to last season, and nine of their last 11 overall. Ryan Dempster (2-4) pitched seven solid innings but lost his fourth consecutive start, allowing three runs and four hits with five walks.Piniella had two good chances to at least tie the game. Theriot entered the day batting .320 and Byrd was at .345.Dempster struggled to find the strike zone in the first inning, issuing consecutive walks to Aki Iwamura and Andy LaRoche to open the game. McCutchen blooped a single to right to score Iwamura with his sixth consecutive hit. One out later, Church doubled down the right-field line to make it 3-0.In their previous series against the Reds, the Pirates scored only one run while losing three straight.Maholm (3-3) allowed two runs and eight hits. He struck out four and walked none.Aramis Ramirez, who entered hitting .168, hit a two-out, two-run double in the third for the Cubs. Ramirez was waved home by third base coach Mike Quade when Geovany Soto followed with a single to left, but he was easily thrown out by Church.