{"id":235761,"date":"2026-07-05T01:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235761\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T01:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:12:10","slug":"pittsburgh-pirates-pitcher-paul-skenes-named-to-mlb-all-star-game-for-3rd-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235761\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes named to MLB All-Star Game for 3rd straight year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Pirates star pitcher Paul Skenes has been named to the National League All-Star team for the third consecutive season, the Pirates announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Skenes joins Rip Sewell (1943-44, 1946) and Elroy Face (1959-61) as the only Pirates pitchers to be selected to the All-Star Game in three straight seasons, according to a media release from the team. Of note, there was no All-Star Game in 1945.<\/p>\n<p>Skenes previously became the first pitcher and one of five players to start in the All-Star Game in each of his first two Major League seasons (2024-25), joining Joe DiMaggio (seven straight, 1936-42), Ichiro Suzuki (four straight, 2001-04), Rod Carew (three straight, 1967-69) and Frank Robinson (two straight, 1956-57).<\/p>\n<p>Skenes has become the first Pittsburgh player to be named to three consecutive All-Star Games since Andrew McCutchen was selected to five straight MLB All-Star Games from 2011 through 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Skenes&#8217; 2026 statistics have been a bit up-and-down thus far, with a 6-8 record, a 3.62 ERA, and 119 strikeouts over 97 innings pitched. Yet the Fullerton, California, native currently ranks fourth among all pitchers in the National League in strikeouts, behind only Milwaukee&#8217;s Jacob Misiorowski (156), Philadelphia&#8217;s Cristopher S\u00e1nchez (136) and Pittsburgh teammate Braxton Ashcraft (122).<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Major League Baseball All-Star Game will take place on Tuesday, July 14, at Philadelphia&#8217;s Citizens Bank Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates star pitcher Paul Skenes has been named to the National League All-Star team for the third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11199,12647,73,75,74,10997],"class_list":["post-235761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb-all-star-game","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235761","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=235761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}