Paul Skenes pitched 6 1/3 innings of five-hit ball with a season-high nine strikeouts, winning his duel with Yoshinobu Yamamoto and leading the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 3-0 victory over the slumping Los Angeles Dodgers.

Yamamoto will take the mound having compiled a 0.93 ERA (408 ERA+) and a 5.43 strikeout-to-walk ratio over his first five starts. Skenes, for his part, has tallied a 2.87 ERA (143

The Dodgers continued their plod through this opening month, dropping their third in a row in a 3-0 loss to Skenes’ Pittsburgh Pirates.