Paul Skenes needed nearly three innings to warm up Wednesday, then struck out six over seven innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-2 at George M. Steinbrenner Field. Oneil Cruz hit his second home run of the season and drove in another to give Skenes,

Jake Mangum collected three more hits and Shane Baz struck out a career-high 10 in six innings, helping the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-0.

Max Fried will make his second start for the New York Yankees against the host Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday afternoon as he looks for a better outing than he had in his team and season debut.

Archer, who fizzled out quickly with the Pirates, is now retired. Austin Meadows, who had an .826 OPS with Tampa Bay, is all but retired even if he hasn’t announced it. And Tyler Glasnow has moved on to Los Angeles with a $136 million contract. The only player directly involved in the trade who is still hanging around is Shane Baz.

Preview the April 1 matchup between the Tampa Bay Rays and Pittsburgh Pirates with odds over/under, game spread, betting lines and more.

When Santana took to the mound, his uniform, and his pants style in particular, left the Rays broadcast bewildered. Santana was wearing some gray Pirates pants that were folded up

Thomas Harrington made his Major League debut in a pitching matchup that also featured Pittsburgh Pirates’ 2017 first-round draft pick Shane Baz for the Tampa Bay Rays.

Harrington, 23, was the No. 36 pick in the 2022 draft out of Campbell University and a consensus top-100 prospect this spring. He broke out in a major way last season, throwing 117 ⅓ innings with a 2.