Another strong performance from the Pittsburgh Pirates' ace.
took game one of the series from the Miami Marlins thanks to another strong outing from starting pitcher Paul Skenes who picked up his tenth win of the year.
The Pirates' ace struck out nine batters in six innings of work, allowing just one run on six hits. His first punch out of the night of Connor Norby broke the Pirates' franchise record for most strikeouts by a rookie pitcher. In the bottom of the first, Oneil Cruz got the Bucs on the board with a solo blast to deep center field, hitting off of the batter's eye 444 feet away from the plate. The ball came off the bat at 114 miles per hour, adding another to the long list of obliterated baseballs by Cruz.In the second, Alika Williams reached safely via a throwing error by shortstop Xavier Edwards which was followed up by a NIck Gonzales double to left.
Jesus Sanchez led off the fourth with a double, but after consecutive strikeouts, the Marlins were in danger of stranding a runner in scoring position. Otto Lopez came through with an RBI base hit to right to get Miami on the board. Aroldis Chapman walked a tightrope in the ninth, giving up a run on a double by Christian Pache. The Marlins should have sent the trailing runner to the plate as well but didn't feel comfortable doing so. Chapman was able to take advantage, getting Nick Fortes to fly out to end the game.
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