See, this, this is what I've been talking about.

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Pirates won Reds Zero yesterday at PNC Park.

That's a three-game sweep of Cincinnati, following a four-game sweep by St. Louis that preceded that.

Braxton Ashcraft, seven and two-thirds scoreless talk about bouncing back.

Four hits, two walks, struck out six.

Gave way to Gregory Soto somewhat against his will, you could tell, with a jam, but Soto gets it done.

Cleans up the ninth to offensively, O'Neill Cruz, two for four with the RBI in the eighth inning.

Following a Connor Griffin double that was smashed off the center field fence.

A couple nice plays in the field for the defense.

Just a generally good feel afterward.

I asked Brian Reynolds, noted, man of a million words,

what this meant to the team. That's great. Bad series answered very well. Last two games, and then this one was the you know the tough games tough games are what

make the good team so found a way to win i asked henry davis the same thing i think we just know

we're we're a good team i mean it's not it's not a attainable goal to win 162 although that's

what we take every day and i think even the fight in those games is very important.

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