re: Cubs (Steele) vs Pirates (Skenes) 3:05 Game Thread

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Nah. He started missing the zone. So therefore They stuck to their pitch count and pulled him instead of letting him finish the inning.

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Yes pitch count was the biggest thing, he'd not pitched more than 75 pitches in the minors and they were not going to let him go much past that. I think they let him stay in for Suzuki because he'd made him look bad the first two times. But the lefty Bellinger was up next then after that Morel who had absolutely crushed two balls off him earlier so even if the pitch count was 80 I doubt they'd have left him in after Suzuki.