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Things must be going especially smoothly for the Pirates.

How else to explain a terrific emergency start from someone fresh off mopup duty?

Or the offense not missing a beat despite missing its linchpin for the first time in two years?

Or the leadoff man reaching base again and again and again?

Such is the current crescendo for the Pirates, who doubled up the Milwaukee Brewers, 4-2, last night at PNC Park to extend their winning streak to four.

"Another very good game," manager Jim Tracy said. "We picked up right where we left off on the weekend."

That was a three-game sweep of the first-place St. Louis Cardinals. While this opponent was not nearly as formidable, the victory might have been equally impressive in other ways.

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