Livvy Dunne on Hand for Paul Skene's First Complete Game
Former LSU Tigers star Paul Skenes pitched his first complete game as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates. He struck out 9 hitters and only allowed 4 Philadelphia Phillies to get on base. Unfortunately, this was still not enough to earn Skenes a victory. Pittsburgh fell to the Philadelphia Phillies by a score of 1-0.
Skenes' girlfriend, the always supportive Livvy Dunne, was in attendance rooting Paul on. She shared a video on TikTok with the caption, 'My special little guy. ♥️'
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The last place Pirates are 15-32 and already 13 games behind the division leading Chicago Cubs. It's already over for their season and it's not even Memorial Day.
After the game, Paul kept it very professional with the media but you could see on his face that these times have been stressful and frustrating. He said, 'Yeah, it was cool. [I] did a good job adjusting, I think as the game went on and kept them off balance so um just better job executing today overall…You can't just start coasting a little bit with it, you have to keep the pressure on early in the count. And I think I did a better job today than I have probably in most of my starts this year.'
Skenes also talked about his mindset on how he's been pitching well but not getting much hit support. He said, 'Just control what you can control. Obviously, not everything is in my power, not everything is within any other individual here's power. [I'm] just controlling what I can control on an individual level. So that's been my focus, that's always been my focus.'
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Paul is next scheduled to pitch on Friday at home against the Milwaukee Brewers.
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