Paul Skenes allowed a career-most seven hits on Thursday night but still delivered six scoreless innings, helping the Pittsburgh Pirates shut out the Cincinnati Reds 7–0. The outing ended his record-setting streak of 46 consecutive starts—dating back to the beginning of his major league career—in which he had never allowed more than six hits, a run that surpassed Shohei Ohtani’s 31-game mark.
Skenes, now 7–8 on the season, struck out eight and lowered his ERA to a league-best 1.94 while extending his home scoreless streak to 27⅔ innings, the longest in franchise history since earned runs became an official stat in 1912. The 23-year-old right-hander has dominated Cincinnati in particular, improving to 4–0 with a microscopic 0.39 ERA and 33 strikeouts against the Reds.
