Hey guys. Welcome to Double Shot of Pirates. I'm Dan Kovachvich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

Ye old baseball club is in San Francisco where they'll be taking on the Giants in three games this weekend.

Beginning tonight, that's a 10.15 p.m. Eastern time for United Ows out there.

Carmen Mijinsky is going to be pitching against some random gray dude named TBD.

Yes, San Francisco hasn't announced their starter yet. Or they're doing a bullpast. some random gray dude named TBD.

I guess San Francisco hasn't announced their starter yet.

Or they're doing a bullpen game or something.

Whatever the case, they're off to a terrible start.

14 and 23.

The pirates tend to do very well in that ballpark.

Take it from somebody who's covered a whole ton of games out there.

Even in the Pirates' worst seasons, they do well.

Last year, they swept the Giants at Oracle.

I'm setting the sights high here, okay? And I understand that Paul Skeens and Mitch Keller just pitched,

but you've got to get something out of everybody else as well.

That's where this process has to start going.

For this team to take that next step,

it's going to have to be on the backs of the other young starters.

I don't mean to not include Braxton Ashcraft, by the way.

He's been very, very good with the exception of one start, which makes him, by the way,

very, very good.

I want to talk today about your new closer.

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