There are obviously a lot of things working well for the Pirates over the last two weeks. You don't win nine in a row and 11 of 12 games without pretty much everything going right. But when we compare the last few weeks to the up and down season the rest of the year, we can see what they really need to compete.
They don't need everything going right all the time. Sure, it helps right now to make up ground from when everything was going wrong and they were losing so much. But the Pirates can get by with a few people struggling, as long as the following still happens.