The Pirates gave out an allotment of 20,000 Paul Skenes bobbleheads, honoring him winning National League Rookie of the Year, for their game against the Cleveland Guardians at PNC Park on April 19, which Skenes started in. Fans lined up hours before, with lines going around the ballpark, down the Roberto Clemente Bridge and around the North Shore.

Paul Skenes allowed a career-high seven hits and still shut down the Reds in a dominant Pirates win. Don Kelly spoke on the ace.

Amid another lost season, the Pittsburgh Pirates have no reason not to give top pitching prospect Bubba Chandler some MLB experience beyond Bob Nutting's cheapness — and Chandler himself has had enough.