{"id":272432,"date":"2026-08-26T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272432\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T08:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:00:47","slug":"pittsburgh-pirates-vs-san-diego-padres-paul-skenes-vs-michael-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272432\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates vs. San Diego Padres: Paul Skenes vs. Michael King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Pittsburgh Pirates are looking for a chance to win their series against the San Diego Padres in the second game of the three-game set at Petco Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Pirates won 3-2 in 12 innings late last night, and they used seven pitchers. This means the Pirates would love to have Paul Skenes go pretty deep in this start. Skenes has been up and down all season long, but he has not pitched more than five innings in any of his last four starts. In his most recent appearance against the Detroit Tigers on August 19, Skenes pitched 4.1 innings, giving up four hits and three earned runs. The Pirates went on to win 4-3, but Skenes did not factor into the decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Skenes won in his last start against the Padres back on April 7, when he pitched 6.1 innings, giving up two hits and one earned run in a 7-1 victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Pirates are going with Michael King, who is making his 27th start of the season. In his last appearance on August 19 against the New York Mets, King pitched 6.2 innings, giving up four hits and two runs in a 4-2 loss at Citi Field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Location: Petco Park, San Diego, CA<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Broadcast: KDKA AM\/FM, Sportsnet Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Pitching Matchup: Paul Skenes (9-11, 3.95 ERA) vs. Michael King (8-9, 3.38 ERA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">BD community, this is your gameday thread for today\u2019s game. Chime off in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Pirates are looking for a chance to win their series against the San Diego Padres in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[66345,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-272432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pirates-discussion","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272432","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=272432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}