
There's an old adage in baseball—and in life: Control what you can control.
Pittsburgh Pirates star pitcher Paul Skenes ascribes to that belief. But in the aftermath of the Pirates' 1-0 loss to the Philadephia Phillies on Sunday, a game in which Skenes yielded just one run in eight innings pitched, the 22-year-old admitted that striving to do so has been "difficult" lately.