You want to know what's awesome, like in a totally devious context,

Paul Skeens is ruining all of this for them.

Good morning to you.

Good Monday morning from Philadelphia.

I'm Dan Kovach of D.K. Fitz Sports, and this is Daily Shot of Pirates. It comes your way right and early every

weekday. If you're into football and or hockey, I also offer daily shots of Steelers and Penguins

in the same place that you found this. Phillies won, Pirates Zero.

That's right, pal.

You guessed the score before I even began speaking it,

even if you missed the game,

because that's how these go.

Skeen's went all eight innings that the Pirates pitched,

and thus recorded his first official complete game in the majors,

allowed one run on three hits, all of them singles, one walk.

He struck out nine.

He got 22 swings and misses out of the 55 swings that the Philadelphia batters took.

If that's the only thing that sinks in from what I say to you on this episode,

let it be that. Let it just be that. That's how incredible he was. That's the scope of this kid's talent.

This wasn't some scrub operation that he was doing this too.

The Phillies might have, I mean, they're easily a top five lineup in baseball,

but I could take them top three, and on a given day,

I would take them over pretty much anybody. And that's, they're loaded. One to nine. He didn't care because he was better than

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