I am not, I repeat, not going to make a negative out of a really uplifting, seemingly out of nowhere, big W out on the West Coast.

So just hear me out.

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Good Wednesday morning.

I'm Dayan Kovachovich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

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Late last night in Anaheim, California, the Pirates had, I can't even say with a straight face, 18 hits.

That's like, that's like a month for these guys.

18 hits.

Now, only two of those were for extra bases, but I'm not searching for negatives here.

I'm not, I'm not.

The top of the order, O'Neill Cruz, Brian Reynolds, Andrew McCutcheon, when it combined seven for 16 with two walks, five RBI's cutch hit, a three-run homer that brought a 5-1 lead and really was the decisive stroke of the game.

This was Cutch after the game speaking with Greg McAfee, our beat writer for D.K. Pittsburgh

Sports out there on the scene in Anaheim.

Yeah, I mean, it was good. I think we just, we just kept, we kept the foot on the gas and,

and yeah, we just, we just kept chipping away throughout the game. So it was good to see it.

And, you know, hopefully we can just find some consistency with, with that. Okay, once again,

emphasizing not a negative, but what has to happen at some point is that somebody

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