{"id":14643,"date":"2024-05-20T09:46:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T01:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/24hscore.org\/news\/?p=14643"},"modified":"2024-05-20T09:46:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T01:46:18","slug":"pirates-beat-cubs-despite-paul-skenes-11-strikeouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/baseball\/pirates-beat-cubs-despite-paul-skenes-11-strikeouts\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB roundup: Pirates defeat Cubs despite Paul Skenes&#8217; 11 strikeouts\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul Skenes struck out 11 over six no-hit innings, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 9-3 victory against the Chicago Cubs on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Skenes (1-0) secured his first career win in just his second major league start. He fanned the first seven batters and maintained a perfect game until issuing a walk to Michael Busch with one out in the fifth inning. Busch was the only Cubs player to reach base against Skenes. Despite his dominance, Skenes&#8217; pitch count reached 100, with 67 strikes, necessitating his replacement by Carmen Mlodzinski for the seventh inning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pirates vs. Cubs Game Highlights (5\/17\/24) | MLB Highlights\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iT-FoIPt_og?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/baseball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Baseball<\/a> expert picks, predictions, and tips<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Connor Joe collected three hits, while Jared Triolo and Yasmani Grandal each added two hits and three RBIs for Pittsburgh, which has won the first two games of the four-game series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cubs starter Kyle Hendricks (0-4) allowed eight runs (seven earned) on 11 hits in 4 2\/3 innings. He struck out four without issuing a walk, causing his ERA to rise to 10.57. Miguel Amaya hit a solo home run for the Cubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rays 4, Blue Jays 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tyler Alexander was perfect into the eighth inning, and Richie Palacios hit a two-run home run, helping the visiting Tampa Bay Rays defeat the Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Davis Schneider hit a two-run homer for the Blue Jays, who did not have a base runner until Danny Jansen singled with one out in the eighth. Alexander (2-2) gave up three runs and three hits over 7 1\/3 innings, striking out four without walking a batter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rays vs. Blue Jays Game Highlights (5\/17\/24) | MLB Highlights\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_lddgmoKYBk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Toronto&#8217;s Chris Bassitt (3-6) allowed three runs on five hits and three walks, striking out five over 5 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tigers 13, Diamondbacks 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Javier Baez drove in five runs and Kerry Carpenter added four RBIs as the Detroit Tigers, overcoming recent offensive struggles, routed the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tigers vs. D-backs Game Highlights (5\/17\/24) | MLB Highlights\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/idkojbW_yso?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Tigers amassed 17 hits in the series opener. Rookie Colt Keith recorded a career-high four hits, contributing two RBIs and three runs. Six Tigers posted multi-hit games, leading to a season-high run total. Tigers starter Tarik Skubal (6-0) pitched six innings of one-hit ball, striking out six without walking a batter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arizona, limited to three hits and no walks, suffered its first shutout loss since an 8-0 defeat by the Los Angeles Dodgers on May 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Skenes struck out 11 over six no-hit innings, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 9-3 victory against the Chicago Cubs on Friday afternoon. Skenes (1-0) secured his first career win in just his second major league start. He fanned the first seven batters and maintained a perfect game until issuing a walk to Michael&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":14649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","rank_math_description":"Paul Skenes struck out 11 over six no-hit innings, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 9-3 victory against the Chicago Cubs on Friday afternoon.","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4281,371,4280,4277,904,4278,4279],"class_list":["post-14643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baseball","tag-alexander-tyler","tag-baseball","tag-busch-michael","tag-grandal-yasmani","tag-mlb","tag-mlodzinski-carmen","tag-skenes-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14650,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14643\/revisions\/14650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}