“Can the Rays Overcome Skenes’ Dominance and Revive Their Offense Against the Struggling Pirates?”
The Rays are having a good start – is it as good as when they started the season 13-0 or whatever they went, of course not. However, the team is looking solid with a 4-1 record to kick off the year. I mentioned how terrible the Pirates are hitting, the Rays are not doing the same. They are hitting rather well actually with a .296 batting average for the year. To be fair to each team, though, the Rays have 48 hits and the Pirates have 38. Obviously there is a difference, but since there is such a small sample size, the bad numbers stand out. What has been most impressive for the Rays is their pitching staff. They are throwing to a 1.60 ERA and a 0.84 WHIP. That’s amazing, even over a five-game stretch. Any team that isn’t walking hitters is going to have a chance to win a game, and they’ve allowed just three walks while striking out 56 hitters so far this season. Today they send out Ryan Pepiot to the hill to battle Skenes. He is lucky to have started his season against the Rockies and now the Pirates. He turned in a quality start for the first outing of the season, going six innings and allowing just one earned run. Pirates hitters also don’t have much experience against him, and he has allowed four hits over 19 at-bats.
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