You probably won’t find this in any known compendium of handy baseball axioms, but I think you’ll agree it ought to be in there somewhere:
If your team can arrange to hit homers in 12 consecutive games, time it for when your starting pitching is starting wild fires on a nightly basis.
Or something.
You can play with the wording, but the general phenomenon is little less than the exact kind of mojo that has been fueling these Pirates all season long, the almost random alignment of complementary forces that got itself so beautifully illustrated for most of Tuesday night as they wrestled the Arizona Diamondbacks into extra innings.