The Pittsburgh Pirates are on one of the most improbable hot streaks in baseball history.
It continued Wednesday afternoon with a 5-0 shutout of the St. Louis Cardinals.
The Pirates' last six games have been as follows:
- Pirates 9, Mets 1
- Pirates 9, Mets 2
- Pirates 12, Mets 1
- Pirates 7, Cardinals 0
- Pirates 1, Cardinals 0
- Pirates 5, Cardinals 0
They set a new MLB record in the process.
No team has ever scored more runs over a six-game span while allowing fewer than five runs in the history of Major League Baseball.
It's a 43-4 stretch for Pittsburgh.
The previous mark was 42 runs in such a dominant six-game streak, which was done in 1884 by the Cincinnati Outlaw Reds, with the stat via OptaStats.
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The Outlaw Reds lasted just a single season. They were also known as the Cincinnati Unions, and they played in the Union Association, which didn't last long. The high point of their season was a no-hitter thrown by outfielder/pitcher Dick Burns, which was the first-ever no-no tossed by a major league player for a Cincinnati team.
The most amazing part of this Pirates stretch, besides that, is that they're still 38-50 on the season and well in the basement of the NL Central.
But if they keep scoring all the runs and giving up very few, maybe they can stage a gigantic turnaround.
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