PIRATES

I asked Carmen Mlodzinski if the team's four-game losing streak was on his mind here tonight as he navigated his way through five scoreless innings: "Definitely not on the mound, but I mean, yeah, you're going into this and you want to be the guy that kinda squashes the streak that we had going there. You can't let it consume you, but you have to be aware of it. There are some things probably not going your way team-wise that are leading to a few losses in a row. I think that just speaks to how you need to go about your work day. Everybody's going to try to keep getting better and recognizing what we need to work on, and then, that's how you kind of snap those cold streaks like we were on."