{"id":778820,"date":"2026-05-07T04:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/778820\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T04:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:27:14","slug":"paul-skenes-throws-8-scoreless-innings-leads-pirates-to-1-0-win-over-diamondbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/778820\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Skenes throws 8 scoreless innings, leads Pirates to 1-0 win over Diamondbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Skenes threw eight brilliant innings in one of the best outings of the young star&#8217;s career, Brandon Lowe hit a solo homer and the Pittsburgh Pirates edged the Arizona Diamondbacks 1-0 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Skenes \u2014 the defending National League Cy Young award winner \u2014 retired the first 14 batters he faced until Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit a soft dribbler down the third-base line for a single. The right-handed pitcher tried to make the play, but his throw was well wide of first base.<\/p>\n<p>Nolan Arenado followed with a line drive single to left, but that was the final baserunner Skenes allowed. The 23-year-old struck out seven, including the final three batters he faced in the eighth. <\/p>\n<p>He threw 97 pitches, including 65 strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory Soto worked around a one-out walk in the ninth to earn his second save.<\/p>\n<p>Lowe&#8217;s homer to center field was a towering shot that traveled 435 feet and bounced off the batter&#8217;s eye. Bryan Reynolds earned his 1,000th career hit on a single in the third, finished the night with two hits and also had a stolen base.<\/p>\n<p>D-backs right-hander Michael Soroka (4-2) gave up several hard-hit balls in the first \u2014 including Lowe&#8217;s homer \u2014 but had more success as the game progressed. He went 6 1\/3 innings, giving up seven hits and two walks while striking out six.<\/p>\n<p>Skenes (5-2) has never thrown a nine-inning complete game in his big-league career. He threw 8 1\/3 innings once in 2024 and threw an eight-inning complete game last season in a 1-0 loss against the Phillies.<\/p>\n<p>The D-backs start RHP Zac Gallen (1-2, 4.45 ERA) on Thursday while the Pirates counter with RHP Mitch Keller (3-1, 2.85) in the finale of the three-game series.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Skenes threw eight brilliant innings in one of the best outings of the young star&#8217;s career, Brandon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":778821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1279,1884,1266,1886,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-778820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","9":"tag-major-league-baseball","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}