{"id":238007,"date":"2026-07-08T01:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T01:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238007\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T01:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T01:04:23","slug":"pirates-braxton-ashcraft-named-to-all-star-team-replacement-for-skenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238007\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates&#8217; Braxton Ashcraft Named to All-Star Team; Replacement for Skenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1120\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Ashcraft-1120x630.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium tpd-force-16x9-aspect-ratio wp-post-image\" alt=\"Braxton Ashcraft, Pittsburgh Pirates\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   loading=\"eager\"\/>Photo provided by Matt Lynch\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pirates right-handed starter Braxton Ashcraft has been named to the National League All-Star team as one of three replacements announced by Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ashcraft, along with Phillies left-hander Jes\u00fas Luzardo and Cardinals right-hander Riley O\u2019Brien, will take the places of Pirates reigning Cy Young winner Paul Skenes, Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski and Marlins righty Max Meyer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ashcraft is in his first full season in the big leagues after making his debut with the Pirates last season. In 18 starts this year, the 26-year-old is 9-3 with a 3.24 ERA and 122 strikeouts in 108.1 innings. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/stats\/pitching\/national-league\/pittsburgh-pirates\/era?playerPool=QUALIFIED&amp;sortState=asc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ashcraft ranks<\/a> 11th in the National League in ERA, fourth in innings and strikeouts and eighth with a 1.10 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Skenes was announced as the Pirates\u2019 lone All-Star representative this season when players were revealed on the Fourth of July. The right-hander, who starts for the Pirates against the Braves on Tuesday night, enters his outing at 6-8 with a 3.62 ERA and 119 strikeouts in 97 innings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pirates host the Brewers for a weekend series at PNC Park starting Friday night, and Skenes is currently scheduled to face Misiorowski in the finale on Sunday afternoon, the final game before the break. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMentioned in this article: <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/braxton-ashcraft\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Braxton Ashcraft<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/paul-skenes\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Skenes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-pirates\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">More about:<a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/pittsburgh-pirates\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pirates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo provided by Matt Lynch PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pirates right-handed starter Braxton Ashcraft has been named to the National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[71622,22146,73,75,74,10997],"class_list":["post-238007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-braxton-ashcraft","tag-paul-skenes","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\/238007","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=238007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}