diff --git a/lib/internal/streams/pipeline.js b/lib/internal/streams/pipeline.js
index 493a464d07b295..d0e94c5e83337e 100644
--- a/lib/internal/streams/pipeline.js
+++ b/lib/internal/streams/pipeline.js
@@ -228,7 +228,9 @@ function pipeline(...streams) {
         // always returns a stream which can be further
         // composed through `.pipe(stream)`.
 
-        const pt = new PassThrough();
+        const pt = new PassThrough({
+          objectMode: true
+        });
         if (isPromise(ret)) {
           ret
             .then((val) => {
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-stream-pipeline.js b/test/parallel/test-stream-pipeline.js
index 191e8c8471bd1c..f3923bc794fc2f 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-stream-pipeline.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-stream-pipeline.js
@@ -1049,3 +1049,15 @@ const { promisify } = require('util');
   src.push('asd');
   dst.destroy();
 }
+
+{
+  pipeline(async function * () {
+    yield 'asd';
+  }, async function * (source) {
+    for await (const chunk of source) {
+      yield { chunk };
+    }
+  }, common.mustCall((err) => {
+    assert.ifError(err);
+  }));
+}