Friday evening match between the Dodgers of Los Angeles And Pirates of Pittsburgh presented an attractive confrontation between the recruit of the national league year Paul's scenes And the defending champions of the World Series.
Would the pirate peeling feel humiliated by one of the most formidable alignments of Major League Baseball? Or would one of the best launchers in the NL do a dodgers offense that has not yet played expectations?
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This time, Skenes prevailed with 6 1/3-roundless inning in Pittsburgh 3-0 victory. The right -hander won nine sticks to the stick without walks and five strokes allowed.
“I think he is one of the best in the game,” said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, After the competition. “Tonight we really couldn't bring together much.”
However, Roberts also estimated that Dodgers strikers helped Skenes pursuing a tendency to hunt the land outside the area.
“I think it is difficult to hit the guys as good when you continue the typing area in relation to locking in your own region,” Roberts added. “I thought this evening, as well as the previous days, we are simply not as disciplined as we must be in certain areas of the striking area.”
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Three readers followed Skenes and kept the dodgers out of the dashboard for the remaining 2 2/3 rounds, abandoning a single blow. David BednarBack with the pirates after being downgraded to minors in early April, withdrawn two from the ninth for his second judgment.
Shohei Ohtani And Mookie Betts went combined 0 for 8 at the top of the order of striker of the dodgers, giving Freddie Freeman And Teoscar Hernández No opportunity to drive in the races. Freeman provided the best chance of the Dodgers to score in the fourth round, leading with a double and going to the third error Bryan Reynolds. But Skenes withdrew the following three strikers from Strand Freeman.
Skenes won two of his three departures against the Dodgers to return last season, granting 7 points in 11 rounds in his first two games. He now has a 3.63 MPM against them, with an average of 13 stick withdraws from nine sleeves.
“This is where baseball becomes really fun, I think,” said Skenes after, via the Pittsburgh post-Gazette. “… (shohei) Ohtani saw my locations today. Freddie (Freeman), I think, saw all my locations today. And apart from today, they have all seen all my locations. I do not hide anything from them, and they do not hide anything. I saw how they attacked me, and they saw how I attack them.”
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Yoshinobu yamamoto allowed his first deserved race in his last four departures, but walked four strikers and abandoned five strokes. However, without support from the Dodgers, he took his second defeat of the season, spent his record at 3-2.
The Dodgers have lost three in a row and four of their last five games, a section in which they have achieved four points per game on average. The skid dropped from Los Angeles in third place in the NL West, a match behind the San Diego Padres and half a game below Giants of San Francisco.
