I mean, look, there's nothing good to say about this weekend, okay?

There's just nothing, nothing, nothing good to say about this weekend unless you want to include all the usuals, the pitching and everything else.

The hitting was a complete catastrophe, and it looked like everything just got set back on its regular course, right?

Well, maybe not.

Maybe not.

Good morning to you.

Good Monday morning from Seattle.

I'm Dan Kovachievich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports, and this is Daily Shot of Pirates.

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Mariners 1, Pirates 0, copy and paste from the previous night, exact same score, copy and paste

from seemingly a dozen other games this season.

The Pirates have now been shut out 14 times this year, more than any other team in Major League Baseball.

14 times they've been shut out, and because that couldn't possibly be enough, they also made history by becoming the first team ever to shut out an opponent in three consecutive games and then to get shut out in the next three consecutive games.

Just in case you're wondering if they ran into some tough luck here. No, they struck out 36 times,

and they had one, count them one extra base hit in the entire series. That was a Nick Gonzalez

double in the Friday opener. I asked Isaiah Kiner Folefa after the game yesterday, you know, basically

what happened? Yeah, I think, yeah, this baseball. So hopefully, yeah, hopefully we just get back

on another streak. Yeah, not what we envision. But, you know, I think we just stick to it. As fast as we

flip things around over there, we could do it again. So we just got to stay within ourselves.

And the hardest thing is going to be keep trusting. So keep trusting. We just got to keep trusting

it. Can't lose faith. And yeah, I mean,

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