Today is the first day of the season that all 30 MLB clubs are playing, a joyous occasion for baseball fans. For Pittsburgh Pirates fans, it's always a special

At just 22 years and 302 days old, Skenes became the youngest Opening Day starter in franchise history since 1893 and the youngest in MLB since José Fernández in 2014. He lived up to the billing with a performance that, by most measures, was dominant: 5.1 innings, two runs, three hits, two walks, and seven strikeouts on 94 pitches.

Paul Skenes needed nearly three innings to warm up, then struck out six over seven innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-2 at George M