Do You Have An Issue With Pirates Pulling Skenes With No-Hitter On Line?
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Riger has a bone to pick with the Pirates, who pulled Paul Skenes in the middle of a no-hitter with under 100 pitches.
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| 0:00.0 | Rico. I brought this up to you. I know you're going to laugh at me. I know Kenny's going to call me a moron. |
| 0:06.5 | But I wanted to take one quick segment. That will move on, I swear. But yesterday the Tigers kicked a little ass. |
| 0:14.6 | They win 10 to one. |
| 0:16.0 | Also, while I was at the pool with my daughter, |
| 0:18.6 | I was watching the Pirates game. |
| 0:20.7 | Paul Skeen's is unbelievable. |
| 0:23.0 | One of those dudes worth the price of admission. |
| 0:25.0 | We were just talking about him. |
| 0:27.0 | His girlfriend is Livy Dunn. I know you guys care about that. |
| 0:30.0 | He took a no hitter into the eighth inning, so he went through seven yesterday. |
| 0:35.7 | 99 pitches, had 11 strikeouts, only had one walk, was dominant, was lethal, was filthy. |
| 0:45.2 | He's a rookie that will start the all-star game for the National League |
| 0:49.2 | and he had a chance to throw a no-hitter yesterday. |
| 0:51.8 | 99 pitches, right? |
| 0:54.0 | Next thing you know, they yank him out of the game. |
| 0:57.0 | Why? |
| 0:58.2 | Because nobody can throw a complete game or a no hitter these days. |
| 1:01.4 | Like, it's not enough right to like they couldn't even let |
| 1:06.6 | him try to go in the eighth inning and try to get at least three more outs or at least one more out as soon as he gives up a hit you got a |
| 1:15.2 | guy in the pen ready he yank him out of the game no big deal he was six outs away from |
| 1:20.0 | a no hitter but now we've reached this stage where it's totally acceptable to pull out |
| 1:27.1 | a guy when he's trying for history. They did it the Matt Manning a couple years ago and it ended |
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