Kyle Harrison & Paul Skenes Face Off in Pivotal Game
Joe Raineri and Craig Mish preview tonight's MLB action, as Kyle Harrison battles Paul Skenes in Milwaukee. Home advantage may be the decider in this key game.
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A pretty good pitchers battle set up here tonight, Craig, and it involves a, a guy that you mentioned yesterday, I completely forgot, and that's Kyle Harrison, the lefty from, Milwaukee is actually back here tonight at home, taking on Paul Skenes of all folks here.
So now Paul Skenes, listen, every time we try to bet unders with, with Skenes or Hunter Green for that matter, it doesn't seem to go all that well.
That total is hovering around seven here tonight, but it'll be interesting.
I mean, Harrison's been on the shelf for a little while.
He's back, in Milwaukee and, you know, we didn't get a whole lot of runs last night.
I don't know that we're gonna get a whole lot of runs in this one here tonight, but I can tell you this.
The Pirates' bullpen looks a lot better than it was 72 hours ago.
That much I can say.
It looks better on paper.
They've added several names, as we talked about yesterday, specifically Luke Weaver and Camilo Doval.
Mm-hmm.
Those were two, and Doval was earlier, in the week, and then they ended up getting Weaver too, late balker.
So, look, it's put up or shut up time for the Pirates.
They're certainly not playing their best baseball of the season.
It comes at a bad time, but there still is time, Joe, for them to get things- turned around.
Milwaukee, very, very tough to beat, as, as we've talked about.
Very good team at home.
And the other part- Yep about this matchup tonight, and yes, you're right, Harrison's back and he was great earlier in the season, but i- what's up with Paul Skenes?
Does anybody really know?
P- Like, there's a lot of speculation.
No one seems to have answers.
He's the most perplexing question, I would think, as far as a pitcher is concerned, over the last couple of months.
It seems like every time he goes out there, he can't get out of the fifth inning, and this is going on now for a while.
So I, I don't know if that's gonna change tonight.
Of course, there's always gonna be speculation about a guy being hurt or a guy tipping pitches.
We don't know b- of anything of that to be true.
Still think he's still one of the best pitchers in the game.
Maybe it's just, Joe, that he's not gonna have a great season.
That's possible, too.
But t- tough series for Pittsburgh to have to stay in the race- Yeah by playing the Brewers.
The good news for them is that the, series will be over eventually, and then they won't have to play them- Yeah for, for a bit again.
But a tough, tough team to beat in Milwaukee.
Yeah, very tough.
So, so far, a- again, I think he's I don't know if he's working on some things.
We, yeah, we watched him pitch last time against Cincinnati.
Just seems to be missing a lot of his pitches, leaving them over the center of the plate and, and guys are making him pay.
It's just one of those seasons here so far.
But, Pittsburgh very much alive, still battling here for a wild card spot.
I think that's a game I'm gonna be very interested to see how that turns out here.
