SAN FRANCISCO -- It maybe wasn’t as aesthetic as some of their other wins, but after what they’ve been through this season, the Pittsburgh Pirates are in no shape to be choosy.
Manager Don Kelly’s ballclub now has a chance to do what it’s been most successful at over the month: Win on the road.\n\nA 13-3 win over the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park on Saturday evened the three-game set at one game apiece and opened the door for the Pirates to grab a series victory in the finale on Sunday.\n\n“I thought we had really good at-bats early on and continued throughout the game, going the other way and doing the things that we needed to do to score runs,” Kelly said. “All night I thought we had good at-bats.”
In doing so, the Pirates put themselves in position to do something that they haven’t done in more than a decade.\n\nPittsburgh has won four consecutive series on the road against National League teams. The last time the Pirates did that five times was in 2015 when they won each of their final five series on the road.\n\nThey also continued their long string of success against the Giants. The Pirates joined the Los Angeles Dodgers as the only NL teams to have winning records at Oracle Park since the waterfront ballpark opened in 2000.\n\nThere was plenty of credit to go around for Saturday’s win.\n\nStarting pitcher
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