Paul Skenes Leads Pirates to 7-0 Victory Over Reds

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00:00you know paul skeins was on the mound yesterday many people probably did even if you were looking

00:03forward to watching preseason football a little bit later on in the night the pittsburgh pirates

00:08only have 50 wins now in the season that's why most people aren't excited but every once in a

00:12while every fifth sixth day you say you know what can paul skeins give us a victory the question

00:16isn't typically joe is if paul skeins is going to be good it's if the pirates bats are good enough

00:21to get him one or two runs for a chance at victory how about three runs in the first inning

00:25how about four runs by the time we hit the fifth how about a seven to nothing victory over the

00:29cincinnati reds were trying to fight for a playoff spot skeins yesterday his statistics six innings

00:34pitched seven hits no earned runs eight strikeouts and no walks here skeins improves to seven and eight

00:41on the season which is ridiculous because how bad his pittsburgh team is that's through no fault of

00:45his own and if we look at his era on the season now 1.94 the kid deals but does it really matter in

00:53it doesn't it's funny though because we had mentioned yesterday too that in the three previous

01:01starts against cincinnati he has just dominated this team in every way shape or form he did it again

01:08last night but he did give up i believe the most hits that he has uh in a game because they did get

01:13seven hits on him but that was nothing of any consequence there he got the strikeouts he got

01:20through the six innings and really it just at that point you were hoping the four runs was going to

01:25be uh enough and then they added a few more obviously and finished the shutout there seven to

01:31nothing but you know you got to be conscious of this guy and the innings because let's face it i mean

01:38you're not competing for a world series here the last thing you want to do is just burn this guy out

01:44meaningless games come uh september so they got to be very conscious on what they're doing with him

01:50you