PITTSBURGH — It’s only eight games into the season, but the Pirates have already enjoyed a crash course on what’s possible when you get competent pitching. And it doesn’t matter how it comes. Just keeping the other team remotely in check allows the offense to do its thing.
Oh, and some sparkling defense doesn’t hurt, either.
Those ingredients comprised the Pirates’ 6-4 victory over the Nationals on a chilly Saturday night at PNC Park, the pitching giving everything else a chance to work and the bats figuring enough out to have another enjoyable game at the plate.
