Paul Skenes Is Absolutely Untouchable Right Now, and One Team Just Broke Baseball's Dumbest Unwritten Rule to Fight Back

Here's the thing about baseball's unwritten rules: they exist to protect pitchers who are dealing, not to make the game better. And Paul Skenes is dealing so hard right now that apparently one team decided the rulebook could take a back seat.

Someone bunted on Skenes in the top of the 3rd inning while trailing by just one run. Yeah, you read that right. In a tight game, with the guy absolutely mowing down hitters like he's reading the newspaper on a Saturday morning, one batter decided to actually try and disrupt his rhythm. Revolutionary concept, I know.

Skenes Is Untouchable and It's Not Even Close

Let's talk about what Skenes has actually been doing on the mound. He took a no-hitter into the 7th inning and lowered his ERA to 1.98. Think about that number for a second. The guy is nearly unhittable right now. And yeah, there was that Opening Day disaster when something was clearly off, maybe life got in the way, and he threw just point-2 innings while giving up 5 earned runs to start his season with a 67.5 ERA. But since that day? He's been unstoppable. Completely dominant. The kind of pitcher that makes you feel like you're already losing before the first pitch even lands.

So Why Not Bunt? Do Something

Here's where the unwritten rules get absurd. Nobody's saying you should bunt in the 9th inning to break up a no-hitter when you're down 8-0. That's weak. That's lame. But in the 3rd inning of a one-run game? You've gotta do everything you can. You've gotta try to take him out of his rhythm, get him off-guard, make him uncomfortable. That's competition. That's baseball. The unwritten rule that says "just let him dominate you without pushing back" is garbage, and one team decided to ignore it. You can't fault them for trying.

If you just sit back and let Skenes deal without any resistance, any gamesmanship, any effort to flip the script, you're going to get absolutely destroyed. You have to do something. Unwritten rules be damned.

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