The Pirates have lost a season-high five straight games and eight of their last nine and have won only 12 games this year while losing 24. They're at St. Louis today, and so far this year, they're 5-12 on the road. But the good news is they have their Ace Paul Skenes on the mound, who's already matched last year's losses with three, and he's never beaten St. Louis in four tries, including a start earlier this year where he gave up five runs in six innings of a 5-3 Cardinals win. Skenes has been alternating wins and losses in each of his seven starts this year, and if the trend holds, he'll win today's game. I'm on the Pirates today.