{"id":149070,"date":"2026-03-26T13:44:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/149070\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:44:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:44:36","slug":"paul-skenes-will-propel-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/149070\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Skenes will propel Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\tGambling content 21+. The New York Post may receive an affiliate commission if you sign up through our links. Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/betting-editorial-standards\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">editorial standards<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p>Offseason\/winter recap. <\/p>\n<p>Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina \u201cManny\u201d Machado gifted her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump before Venezuela upset Team USA at the World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone but Stitches was named in the Epstein files. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bachelorette\u201d was canceled but chair-throwing Taylor Frankie Paul is a shoo-in to win the Bobby Knight Memorial Award. <\/p>\n<p>And the California Post was born.<\/p>\n<p>Is this the year the Pirates back Paul Skenes with some run support? <\/p>\n<p>Skenes\u2019 ERA was 1.97 and he struck out 216 in 2025, but his record was a pedestrian 10-10. <\/p>\n<p>Freddy Peralta makes his Mets debut after mowing down batters in Milwaukee since 2018. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.53293413;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38898028\" width=\"904\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Freddy-Peralta.jpg\" alt=\"Freddy Peralta\" class=\"wp-image-38898028\"  \/>Freddy Peralta Corey Sipkin for New York Post<\/p>\n<p>We will take Skenes and the Pirates for $50.<\/p>\n<p>It took us eight months last year to win $101. <\/p>\n<p>It took a couple of hours to go up +100 pepitones. <\/p>\n<p>Max Fried tossed a two-hitter over 6\u2009\u00b9\/\u2083. <\/p>\n<p>On a night Aaron Judge went 0-for-5, the Yanks blanked the Giants 7-0. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gambling content 21+. The New York Post may receive an affiliate commission if you sign up through our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11848,1423,68054,4606,22146,73,75,74,10997,726,11850,22159],"class_list":["post-149070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-betting","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-betting","tag-new-york-mets","tag-paul-skenes","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-sports","tag-sports-picks","tag-stitches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}