{"id":244955,"date":"2026-05-24T04:53:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T04:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/blue-jays-patrick-corbin-has-best-performance-of-season-vs-pirates\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T04:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T04:53:28","slug":"blue-jays-patrick-corbin-has-best-performance-of-season-vs-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/blue-jays-patrick-corbin-has-best-performance-of-season-vs-pirates\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; Patrick Corbin has best performance of season vs. Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Who would have thought that the low-risk, high-reward signing of Patrick Corbin for $1 million would put up the best performance as a Blue Jay against the reigning NL Cy Young winner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/bryce_harper_offers_high_praise_of_pirates_star_paul_skenes\/s1_13132_43853932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Skenes<\/a>?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Corbin outdueled Skenes, who improved his ERA to 3.86 on the season with a solid performance, going six innings, giving up five hits, one run, no walks and seven strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>He also generated 13 whiffs on 69 pitches. It is the most strikeouts he&#8217;s recorded since August 26, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Skenes, on the other hand, went five innings, gave up four earned runs and had two strikeouts with one walk. Corbin has been the unsung hero of the Blue Jays&#8217; pitching staff, putting up a strong performance against one of the best pitchers in MLB.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/blue_jays_patrick_corbin_has_best_performance_of_season_vs_pirates\/s1_13132_43875731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who would have thought that the low-risk, high-reward signing of Patrick Corbin for $1 million would put up the best performance as a Blue Jay against the reigning NL Cy Young winner, Paul Skenes?\u00a0 Corbin outdueled Skenes, who improved his ERA to 3.86 on the season with a solid performance, going six innings, giving up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-244955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}