{"id":241829,"date":"2026-07-12T21:57:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241829\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T21:57:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:57:29","slug":"skenes-wins-2nd-straight-start-after-9-game-winless-slide-pirates-rout-brewers-14-5-with-10-run-4th-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241829\/","title":{"rendered":"Skenes wins 2nd straight start after 9-game winless slide, Pirates rout Brewers 14-5 with 10-run 4th | MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 Paul Skenes won his second straight start after going winless for nine in a row as the Pittsburgh Pirates scored 10 runs in the fourth inning to rout the Milwaukee Brewers 14-5 Sunday and head into the All-Star break with a three-game sweep.<\/p>\n<p>What was slated to be a high-profile matchup lost some of its luster when <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/brewers-jacob-misiorowski-ac9d55cc9d9f95b40ff333967c4ec7fa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee scratched hard-throwing Jacob Misiorowski<\/a> on Saturday because of arm fatigue. While Skenes and Misiorowski are All-Stars, both will skip pitching in Tuesday&#8217;s showcase.<\/p>\n<p>Skenes (8-8) allowed two runs and three hits over 5 1\/3 innings with one walk and seven strikeouts \u2014 including four among his final five batters. He had been 0-6 in nine starts before beating Atlanta on Tuesday, and the Pirates lost all nine of those games.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Gasser (2-4) gave up seven runs and eight hits in three-plus innings.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh (50-47) took a 4-2 lead into the fourth and scored seven runs before making an out.<\/p>\n<p>Marcell Ozuna homered, Henry Davis had an RBI single and Jared Koenig hit Bryan Reynolds with a pitch with the bases loaded, forced in a run by walking Esmerlyn Valdez and allowed Ryan O\u2019Hearn&#8217;s run-scoring single that boosted the advantage to 9-2.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Gonzales greeted Grant Anderson with a two-run double, Triolo hit a two-run single and, after a video review reversed the call at first on what appeared to be an inning-ending double-play grounder by Davis, Jake Mangum hit an RBI triple.<\/p>\n<p>Skenes tossed three perfect innings before giving up back-to-back doubles starting the fourth to Christian Yelich and Chourio. Gary S\u00e1nchez hit into a run-scoring forceout.<\/p>\n<p>Brice Turang hit a two-run homer in a three-run eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Brewers: Start a home series Friday against Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Pirates: Open a three-game series Friday at Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 Paul Skenes won his second straight start after going winless for nine in a row&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4662,103717,31296,73,75,74,726],"class_list":["post-241829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-baseball","tag-brewers-pirates-score-skenes","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241829","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=241829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}