The Cubs have had two separate 10-game winning streaks.

Brewers have now won four in a row, including just sweeping through Yankee Stadium over the weekend.

These things, my friends, these are the new bar.

Good morning to you. Good.

Tuesday morning, I'm Dan Kovachievich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

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It's a Paul Skeen's Knight in Pittsburgh.

Pirates versus Rockies is a 640 p.m.

First pitch at PNC. Park.

And although I haven't done all of my usual diligence in advance of this one,

I'm pretty sure that when I get around to it,

the scouting report will suggest that the Rock Rocky still stink. As such, beat them.

Get something started here. Oh, and when you get it started, unlike in San Francisco,

finish it, because the giants stink too. And what needs to happen here, as it has already,

in Chicago and in Milwaukee, is that all of these various

intangible signs that point, and I mean point powerfully, to the pirates being every bit

as good as those teams, is it that needs to start translating into direct, rock, hard results.

The pirate's longest winning streak this season was five.

That was way back at the beginning.

You'll recall it included the opening homestand.

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