The Secret Weapon Behind Every Pirates Victory: How Skenes Defies the Odds
The Pirates are not having a good season. They are 14 games under .500 at the moment and have been brutal on the road. We are now in the middle of June, and they still don’t have 10 wins on the road this season. The Rockies are obviously worse, but there is only one other team that has a worse record than the Pirates on the road, and that is the White Sox. Not trying for Colorado or the White Sox to catch some strays. This Pirates team has been brutal, though. The team is only averaging 3.2 runs per game this season and only has 49 homers as a club. Their pitching staff overall has been pretty good. Most of it comes from today’s starter, Paul Skenes. For the year, Skenes is a potential Cy Young winner. He is 4-6 with a 1.88 ERA and a 0.84 WHIP. He is fifth in ERA and a third in WHIP. He also has 92 strikeouts in 91 innings. If you can believe it or not, he has been better on the road than at home with a 1.19 ERA on the road. He did face the Cubs once this season, allowing three solo homers in five innings. He issued four walks and five hits total. Chicago has done surprisingly well against him with 14 hits in 56 at-bats.
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