There won’t be some magical mega-burst of a moment that puts these Pirates back into the place where they were three weeks ago.
There also doesn’t need to be.
Any baseball summer stretches out over six months, 162 games, and all sorts of streaks and slumps. There's no such thing as something that's singularly defining. It's a Thunderbolt rise here, it's a Jack Rabbit double-dip there, and it's a Racer finish with no one finding out the winner until the final few clacks of the track.
So, just as March/April can bring a 20-8 start, May can open with a 1-11 slump that came complete with the franchise's most dismal dozen-game offensive output since the 1890s .