Tuesday evening, for the third time this season, the Milwaukee Brewers faced Pirates ace Paul Skenes, who is a sizable National League Cy Young favorite for a reason. Through 25 starts, the righty sophomore has a 2.13 ERA and 0.96 WHIP. He doesn’t allow hits, especially not homeruns – just nine in 148 innings.
Skenes is dominant: unless, that is, he’s dealing with the Brewers. Averaging over 6-and-a-half innings per start coming in, he lasted just four frames against Milwaukee for the second outing in a row. By the time he hit the showers, Skenes had authored a bit of trivia that could hardly get any crazier. That’s just how things are going with the Brewers this summer.
Milwaukee Brewers are a thorn in Skenes’ side
It was not even a terrible start: in those four innings, Skenes allowed four runs on six hits plus two walks and struck out four. He may have come out for the fifth, but the Brewers had racked up his pitch count to 93 and already led 4-0.
During the game, beat reporter Curt Hogg tweeted a startling fact.
Paul Skenes earned runs allowed in his last 2 starts against Milwaukee: 8
Paul Skenes combined earned runs allowed in his last 10 starts against everyone else: 8 https://t.co/Lyy4zHuLNM
— Curt Hogg (@CyrtHogg) August 13, 2025
Pretty insane. Of the nine balls that have carried the fences against Skenes this year, two came last night: a solo shot for Sal Frelick to lead off the game, and another one for Brice Turang in the fourth.
Freddy Peralta, meanwhile, cruised through six scoreless innings, earning his 14th win and lowering his ERA to 2.90.
The win, by a final score of 14-0, was Milwaukee’s 11th straight, their second such streak in just over three weeks. At 75-44, the Brewers now incredibly hold a 7.5-game lead over the Cubs, who once led Milwaukee by 6.5 games this season.
After wrapping up the series Wednesday, they are scheduled to play the Pirates one more time, in early September. Although Skenes does have one good start against the Brewers in 2025 – 6 innings, 1 run, 8 K’s, back on May 23 – it would be hard to blame him if he’d rather his pitching schedule cause him to miss that three-game set.
Wednesday’s matchup is set to take place at American Family Field between Brandon Woodruff for the Brewers and Pittsburgh’s Mitch Keller. First pitch is 1:10 PM CT.
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