Blue Jays' Patrick Corbin shows Paul Skenes you can't predict baseball

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Even if prime Patrick Corbin time traveled to 2026, he'd be considered an underdog against Paul Skenes.

But this version of Corbin? The one who has entered a struggling, journeyman phase of his career? Not in a million years would this Corbin be given much chance to outpitch Skenes.

You can't predict baseball, though. 

Corbin proved that on Saturday.

The Blue Jays topped the Pirates, 5-2. That's shocking in this matchup in and of itself.

And how about Corbin? He induced 15 whiffs on the day. Skenes got just 7 swings-and-misses.

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The tone was set in the first inning. Corbin put up a zero. Then George Springer led off the bottom half with a home run.

The Blue Jays never trailed.

Pittsburgh got its lone run off Corbin in the sixth. He went 6.0 innings, allowing five hits and no walks with the one earned run, striking out seven.

The Blue Jays scored three more runs off Skenes in the sixth -- he faced four batters in that frame without recording an out. His final line was 5.0 innings, nine hits, four runs, one walk and only two strikeouts.

It'd be one thing for Corbin and the Jays to have defeated Skenes in any fashion. To do it in a way where Corbin was the much more effective pitcher on the day? That's incredible.

Baseball is brilliant for many reasons, and one of the best is simply that on any given day at the ballpark, the sport can provide an infinite number of surprises.

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