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Despite their season-high six-game winning
streak, the Pirates are 38-50 — including 26-24 since Don Kelly
was promoted from bench coach on May 8 after manager Derek
Shelton was fired.
Pittsburgh was 14 games behind the NL Central-leading Chicago
Cubs entering play on Wednesday. The Pirates became the first
big league team since at least 1901 to score 43 runs or more and
allow four runs or fewer in a six-game span. It was their first
perfect homestand of six or more games since the Pirates were
7-0 against the Cardinals and Milwaukee Brewers from June 28 to
July 4, 2004.
The Pirates hadn't pitched three straight shutouts since June
14-16, 2015, and hadn't accomplished the feat against one team
in a series since Oct. 2-3, 1976, also against the Cardinals.
Mitch Keller, Dennis Santana and Isaac Mattson combined on a
six-hitter.
“It’s just a testament to how hard we’re working and the
scouting that we’re going through,” said Keller, who allowed
five hits in seven innings. “We just have a really good plan
going in, which I think gives confidence to everybody when they
know what the plan is, and when we execute it, it works.”
St. Louis hadn't been shut out in three consecutive games since
Sept. 18-21, 2022, against Cincinnati and San Diego.
“The starting rotation has been phenomenal,” Kelly said. “And
then the guys in the ’pen did such a great job in such a tough
stretch, too, against quality teams.”
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