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\u20130. The outing ended his record-setting streak of 46 consecutive starts\u2014dating back to the beginning of his major league career\u2014in which he had never allowed more than six hits, a run that surpassed Shohei Ohtani\u2019s 31-game mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Skenes, now 7\u20138 on the season, struck out eight and lowered his ERA to a league-best 1.94 while extending his home scoreless streak to 27\u2154 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\u20130 with a microscopic 0.39 ERA and 33 strikeouts against the Reds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\u20130.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/paul-skenes-768x432-1.jpg",768,432,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/paul-skenes-768x432-1.jpg",768,432,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/paul-skenes-768x432-1.jpg",768,432,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/paul-skenes-768x432-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/paul-skenes-768x432-1-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"large":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/paul-skenes-768x432-1.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/paul-skenes-768x432-1.jpg",768,432,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/paul-skenes-768x432-1.jpg",768,432,false],"digital-newspaper-featured":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/paul-skenes-768x432-1.jpg",768,432,false],"digital-newspaper-list":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/paul-skenes-768x432-1-600x400.jpg",600,400,true],"digital-newspaper-thumb":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/paul-skenes-768x432-1-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"digital-newspaper-small":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/paul-skenes-768x432-1-150x95.jpg",150,95,true],"digital-newspaper-grid":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/paul-skenes-768x432-1-400x250.jpg",400,250,true]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/?author=1"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"Sports<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"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\u20130.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2756,"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions\/2756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}