The Pittsburgh Pirates take the first two games from the New York Yankees.
continued their role of playing spoiler on Saturday afternoon, taking down the New York Yankees, 9-4.
The final start of Paul Skenes' rookie season lasted all of just two innings, but he went out with a bang. The Pirates' ace collected back-to-back punchouts of Juan Soto and Aaron Judge in the first inning and then got Jazz Chisholm Jr. looking at strike three to end the day, dropping his ERA to 1.96 - the lowest by a rookie since 1950. Michael Burrows came in relief for Skenes to make his Major League debut and had a pretty decent outing, giving up just one earned run in 3.
The Pirates slugged five home runs in the game with all nine of their runs coming via the long ball. Yasmani Grandal, Jared Triolo, Nick Gonzales, Nick Yorke, and Billy Cook all went deep. New York scratched one run across in the sixth, seventh, and eighth innings to make it a 6-4 game, but a Grandal RBI single and the two-run shot by Yorke put the game out of reach.4. SS Nick Gonzales 1-4 HR8. 2B Nick Yorke 1-4 HR, 2 RBI2. RF Juan Soto 1-3 RBI, 2 BB6. 3B Jazz Chisholm Jr.
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