Just as it's usually unfair to look at one week of anything in baseball, it's that much more unfair to look at one week of hitting in baseball.

But, as we keep saying when it comes to the subject of the current management team, it's not about one week.

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Good Thursday morning.

I'm Dan Kovatovich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

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in the same place that you've found this. Pirates 4 raised to Paul Skeens almost single-handedly

ending his team's four-game losing streak and allowing the team to come home two and five as opposed to one and six.

I guess if you're into small triumphs, there's a small triumph.

Not to take anything away from the kid, of course. He was something. Seven innings, one unearned run, three hits, six strikeouts, no walks, just fired away.

102 pitches, 72 strikes. He's got, in addition to everything else that there is special about skeins, he's got

hoarse written all over him.

And for those of you who are too young to know what that term means in this beautiful

sport, that's back when starting pitchers

used to get you innings like this on a regular basis. And from there, end up with 200 innings.

And 30 starts. And good for him. Got a little hairy there at the end. Colin Holderman

continues to struggle. But Ryan Baraki made an outrageously good pitch to Bail Holderman out of the eighth inning. Dennis Santana coming on for his first save.

O'Neill Cruz with a home run, a sack fly, a couple of hits total.

Adam Frazier with a couple of hits out of the leadoff spot, one of them bringing a run home.

And that was that.

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