Hey guys, welcome to double shot of Pirates.

I'm Dan Kovachovich of DK. Pittsburgh Sports joined from all the way out in Phoenix.

I beat reporter Jose Negron, getting for the Pirates playing their series finale

against Arizona at 3.40 p.m. Eastern Times. This is kind of like our pregame show,

right, Jose? Yeah. Has it worked out this way at all this season? I feel like this is like a perfect

This feels nice, huh? We'll play all games at 340, Pittsburgh

time from now on.

It's, it's, uh, Mitch

Keller is on the mound for the Pirates

against Zach Gallen.

I guess that would have been a

fantastic pitching

matchup in another reality.

The Gallin's not what he was.

He's off to a little bit of a rough start there in Arizona with a 4.45 ERA.

Still a good pitcher, obviously.

Jose, how important was the win last night?

I understand, you know, what it meant from a Paul Skeen standpoint and everything else here.

But, you know, after getting pasted the way they did in the first night, you don't want to get a trip like that started on two.

Yeah, I think it was huge, you know, especially the like you said.

I mean, you wanted you wanted to start out the road trip a lot better than than you did on Tuesday. And to be able to bounce back, I mean, let's face it, the offense over these last three games, you know, we talked about the last 26 innings, they scored two runs. And they've managed to win two of those three games, which says a lot about

what the pitching staff has been able to do, obviously getting gems from Braxton Ashcroft and Paul

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