{"id":33256,"date":"2025-09-10T23:38:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/pirates-skenes-200-ks-and-load-management-after-mlb-exhibition\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T23:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:38:56","slug":"pirates-skenes-200-ks-and-load-management-after-mlb-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/pirates-skenes-200-ks-and-load-management-after-mlb-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates&#8217; Skenes: 200 Ks and load management after MLB exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>BALTIMORE<\/strong> \u2013 After surpassing 200 strikeouts for the first time in his career, [Pirates](\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/pit\/pittsburgh-pirates) ace Paul Skenes admitted it was good to take a breather.The leading National League Cy Young contender reached 203 strikeouts, fanning eight Orioles batters in the Pirates&#8217; 2-1 loss in 10 innings to [Baltimore](\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bal\/baltimore-orioles) on Wednesday night.It could have been more if manager Don Kelly hadn&#8217;t pulled the dominant right-handed pitcher after only 64 pitches, the fewest of the season, with the aim of managing his workload down the stretch of his first full season in the Major Leagues.<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The main goal I&#8217;ve had in the last two years is to make every opening. There are opportunities to give and take throughout the season, and tonight was one of them. I probably needed it, to be honest.<\/p><cite>Paul Skenes<\/cite><\/blockquote>Skenes has an effectiveness of 1.92 in 178 innings, the best of the majors, after combining 160\u2153 last season between the Pirates and Triple-A Indianapolis.<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Launched last September, but it was different. Throwing 160 innings, with 27 of them in the minors, is not the same as throwing 160 innings all in the Major Leagues.<\/p><cite>Paul Skenes<\/cite><\/blockquote><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0911%2Fr1543813_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Paul Skenes lanz\u00f3 cinco entradas sin permitir carreras y solo dos hits en su 30\u00aa salida el mi\u00e9rcoles. Hizo solo 64 lanzamientos. Foto AP\/Stephanie Scarbrough<\/figcaption><\/figure>He could make three more starts in Pittsburgh&#8217;s rotation before the season ends, but the outings in 2026 and beyond could be more important; Wednesday&#8217;s loss was number 82 for the Pirates, guaranteeing a seventh straight sub-.500 season and the 29th of the last 33.Kelly said Skenes&#8217; workload at the end of the season would be evaluated after each start.<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>As we&#8217;ve talked about with all the guys, we&#8217;re just trying to make sure we&#8217;re managing their workload, making sure they get to the end of the season healthy and ready to finish a full season and be ready for next year.<\/p><cite>Don Kelly<\/cite><\/blockquote>Wednesday was Skenes&#8217; 11th start in which he completed five innings without allowing a run. Eight of those have been since the beginning of July.It&#8217;s only the second Pirates&#8217; opener in the modern era (since 1901) to reach 200 strikeouts in 180 innings or less. Oliver P\u00e9rez was the first in 2004.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE \u2013 After surpassing 200 strikeouts for the first time in his career, [Pirates](\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/pit\/pittsburgh-pirates) ace Paul Skenes admitted it was good to take a breather.The leading National League Cy Young contender reached 203 strikeouts, fanning eight Orioles batters in the Pirates&#8217; 2-1 loss in 10 innings to [Baltimore](\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bal\/baltimore-orioles) on Wednesday night.It could have been more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[344,559,1054,322],"class_list":{"0":"post-33256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mlb","7":"tag-mlb","8":"tag-paul-skenes","9":"tag-pirates","10":"tag-strikeouts"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}