Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander Paul Skenes is the first rookie pitcher to start the All-Star Game since the Dodgers' Hideo Nomo at the Ballpark in Arlington in 1995.
because it moves with the high-90s velocity of a sinker but dips down in the zone like a Mike Scott split-fingered fastball., leaving Major League hitters baffled. It helped him throw seven no-hit innings before coming out in his last start before the All-Star Break.to start the All-Star Game and the first player to be selected an All-Star in the season after he was drafted.
If he keeps going at the rate he's started, that shouldn't be a problem. Skenes is 6-0 with a 1.90 ERA with 89 strikeouts in 66 1/3 innings over his first 11 starts. "I call it a sinker. Everybody else calls it a splinker," Skenes said. "I view it as having a different fastball, with a different shape. It forces hitters to choose between one or the other."
"I kind of started fooling around with it between when the college season wrapped up and when I was going to report," he said. "I figured out a different cue for it and started throwing it and got command over it. The last part was throwing it to hitters to see how they reacted to it."
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