Paul Skenes Suffers First MLB Loss Despite Dominant Performance

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00:00in skeins day number 12 in the history of MLB that's XII in roman numerals and for Paul Skeens

00:08he pitched into the ninth inning 104 pitches yesterday eight and a third it's just that

00:15alec burleson in the top of the ninth for st louis did record an rbi single off of skeens

00:21and a tied game at one at the time to give st louis the game winning run and for paul skeens

00:28he suffered his first loss of his MLB career now six and one with a 193 era the bunkos dropped just

00:36the fourth game in the 12 starts that paul skeens has made but he wasn't bad donnie st louis does

00:43win outright however as a plus 150 underdog a total of seven and a half we said keep an eye

00:51on the under with paul skeens out there getting the start does stay well under seven and a half

00:57yeah and even if you're looking for different options in this game ben hey you always take

01:00paul skeen's first five innings actually lost the first five innings one to nothing so it wasn't as

01:04if like man i should have just went first five as opposed to full game which he lost the full game

01:08as well it's not his fault you tell any pitcher go eight and a third innings pitch give up two

01:12earned runs you're probably dominating the reason why you're still pitching in the ninth inning is

01:16you probably have a lead of four or five or six to two at that point which they didn't have still

01:20eight strikeouts on the day no walks it was a very good performance for him but as i say this

01:25like we are going to take a look at those cy young odds here's the interesting part it's not

01:29so much about paul skeens himself it's that pirates record they're 51 and 50 right now we're

01:34not even in the august yet they're only a game and a half back of that wild card spot that's the eye

01:39to keep it on because if you're looking at the pirates and they can hang between three and four

01:43games of that wild card spot yeah that means skeens probably is going to be pitching over the

01:47final two weeks of the season you're gonna need every inning and every strikeout you could possibly

01:51get if you want to win that cy young so it's up to the pittsburgh pirates to hold up their

01:55end of the bargain as well as paul skeens to continue to pitch down the stretch