I normally limit the featured section of this article to a single player. On Thursday night, the Pittsburgh Pirates had top pitching prospects Paul Skenes and Bubba Chandler on the mound, so it felt appropriate to expand the focus.
Skenes made his fourth start for Indianapolis, pitching 3.1 shutout innings. He allowed one hit, two walks, one batter to reach via error, and struck out eight. The best way to summarize his stuff is to point out that Kyle Nicolas threw his hardest pitch at 99.2 MPH. Skenes threw 39 pitches harder than that, including 34 that hit triple digits.