The Pittsburgh Pirates edged their opponent 1–0 on Tuesday night, securing their fifth consecutive victory—the club’s longest winning streak of the season and ninth shutout of the year. The game was preserved in the ninth inning when first baseman Spencer Horwitz fielded a relay and fired home, where catcher Henry Davis applied the tag on José Fermín to end the threat. Pittsburgh’s pitching staff has surrendered just four runs during the five-game stretch, its stingiest five-game span since 2015 and, before that, 1977, according to OptaSTATS. Despite the run prevention, rookie right-hander Paul Skenes has received little offensive support; the Pirates have scored two or fewer runs in five of his last six starts, leaving him 0-2 with a 1.79 ERA over that period. The surge has lifted the Pirates to within 10 games of the National League’s final wild-card berth as the season approaches the mid-summer mark.