With girlfriend and gymnast Livvy Dunne cheering him on from the stands, Skenes threw four pitches at least 100 mph, giving him exactly 100 such pitches on the season. To put it in context Jose Soriano of the Angels is second with 40 and has not pitched since mid-August with right arm fatigue.

Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes put an impressive yet abbreviated capstone on his impressive rookie campaign against the New York Yankees on Saturday. Skenes, in his final start of the 2024 season,

Paul Skenes toed the rubber at Yankee Stadium for the first time, but he wasn’t on the mound for long. The time he did spend on it, he was worthy of the hype, striking out three Yankees and retiring all six batters he faced in a planned abbreviated outing to close out a memorable rookie year.