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Pitching in the major leagues cannot be as easy as Paul Skenes makes it look. The Pittsburgh rookie, one of the top prospects in baseball, threw a no-hitter for six innings in Chicago on Friday before the Pirates’ bullpen took over. That was the end of the no-hitter, but Skenes still collected his first victory in Major League Baseball, in his second start; the Pirates won 9-3. His performance was stellar in these ways: Strikeouts: Skenes fanned 11 Cubs, which no Pirates starting pitcher had done in the 1,016 games that Pittsburgh had played at Wrigley Field before Friday, per MLB. The 21-year…

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