{"id":479180,"date":"2025-08-19T08:44:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/paul-skenes-strikes-out-eight-and-leads-pirates-victory-over-the-blue-jays\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T08:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:44:31","slug":"paul-skenes-strikes-out-eight-and-leads-pirates-victory-over-the-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/paul-skenes-strikes-out-eight-and-leads-pirates-victory-over-the-blue-jays\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Skenes strikes out eight and leads Pirates&#8217; victory over the Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<strong> Pittsburgh, PA<\/strong>. With a solid performance from <strong>Paul Skenes<\/strong> on the mound and capitalizing on defensive errors by the opponent, the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Toronto Blue Jays this Monday by <strong>5-2<\/strong> at PNC Park, returning to the winning path after a complicated road trip.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/vladimir-guerrero-jr-se-sometera-a-una-resonancia-magnetica-por-rigidez-en-el-tendon-de-la-corva\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vladimir Guerrero Jr. will undergo an MRI for stiffness in the hamstring<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nSkenes allowed only two earned runs in six and a third innings, totaling <strong>eight strikeouts<\/strong> in 96 pitches, 51 of them four-seam fastballs. The only damage came in the third inning, when Bo Bichette produced a run-scoring single to momentarily give Toronto the lead. With this outing, the star rookie has limited his rivals to <strong>two runs or less in 21 of his 26 starts<\/strong> in 2025.\n\nPittsburgh&#8217;s offense responded immediately with a run by <strong>Bryan Reynolds<\/strong> on a fielder&#8217;s choice play and, in the seventh inning, <strong>Henry Davis<\/strong> scored the go-ahead run after a wild pitch. The Pirates extended their lead in the eighth with two additional runs, benefiting from a throwing error by Tyler Heineman and a sacrifice fly by Davis himself.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Paul Skenes, 3Ks in the 2nd. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZypkmjB22j\">pic.twitter.com\/ZypkmjB22j<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PitchingNinja\/status\/1957580003262280167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nThe bullpen also shone: <strong>Evan Sisk<\/strong> earned his first Major League win after retiring the seventh inning in order, while <strong>Dennis Santana<\/strong> secured his <strong>eighth save<\/strong> of the season with an impeccable ninth.\n\nThe Pirates will look to win the series this Tuesday, when <strong>Mitch Keller (5-11, 4.13 ERA)<\/strong> faces <strong>Max Scherzer (3-2, 3.83 ERA)<\/strong>. First pitch is scheduled for 6:40 p.m. ET at PNC Park.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA. With a solid performance from Paul Skenes on the mound and capitalizing on defensive errors by the opponent, the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Toronto Blue Jays this Monday by 5-2 at PNC Park, returning to the winning path after a complicated road trip. You may be interested in: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. will undergo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":479182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,39774,13766,40853],"class_list":["post-479180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20EI","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/usatsi_26018591.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yamell Rossi","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-7a176880-76f8-4b0c-9527-4e34feef45e4-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/usatsi_26018591.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}