{"id":53416,"date":"2025-08-08T02:01:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53416\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T02:01:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:01:04","slug":"pirates-rhp-paul-skenes-mlb-record-streak-ends-at-46-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53416\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates RHP Paul Skenes&#8217; MLB-record streak ends at 46 games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/pittsburgh-pirates\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"pittsburgh-pirates\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> ace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/paul-skenes\/96de3b8e-efd5-4cdd-a6b8-617e47069c5a\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"96de3b8e-efd5-4cdd-a6b8-617e47069c5a\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Paul Skenes<\/a>&#8216; record streak of allowing six or fewer hits to open an MLB career ended at 46 games on Thursday night against the Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n<p>The longest such streak to begin a career (excluding openers), according to OptaStats, had belonged to Shohei Ohtani, who went 31 starts from 2018-21 for the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n<p>Skenes (7-8) allowed seven hits over six innings. He struck out eight batters and didn&#8217;t give up a run, lowering his ERA to 1.94. That extended his scoreless streak to 27.2 innings; he last allowed a run June 8 against Philadelphia. He entered 3-0 with a 0.53 ERA all-time against the Reds with 25 strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates beat the Reds 7-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes&#8216; record streak of allowing six or fewer hits to open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-53416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}