Every time there is a Bobblehead -Weggeefactie in Major League Baseball, you have to arrive early to secure yours. For Pittsburgh Pirates fans on Saturday, that meant hours when you have a Paul Skenes Bobblehead.
Fans started more than five hours before Saturday’s game between Pittsburgh and Cleveland in the hope of landing a Bobblehead with the ruling National League Rookie of the Year outside PNC Park.
The gates only opened 90 minutes before the first throw, but fans did not tore that. Lines stretched in all directions of the park Vroe on Saturday afternoon, including one that struck the Roberto Clemente Bridge behind midfield, which connects the north coast of Pittsburgh with the city center of the city.
The question became so great that the club-that has sharpened your songs from public-riots problems during the opening weeks of the season to ensure that everyone in the experience of selout-mixture who did not receive the chance to get one.
“Every fan who scanned in today’s game after the first 20,000 Bobbleheads have been given away, an electronic voucher is sent,” the Pirates announced. Teamresident Travis Williams Caled interest in the Bobblehead “Unknown”.
The promotion had also happened with the fourth start of the season of Skenes. The top choice in the amateur design of 2023 entrails Saturday 2-1 with 2.96 ERA, an MLB-Beste 1.39 FIP, 0.74 Whip and 26 Strikeouts in 24 1/3 innings. However, the pirates are 8-13, last in the National League Central.
SKENES, the starting pitcher for the National League in the MLB All-Star Game 2024, posted on 1.96 ERA, 0.95 Whip and 170 Strikeouts in 23 Starts last season.
This is hardly the first time that an item has attracted monumental attention with Skkenes. A unique Rookie card with Skes that is sold for more than $ 1 million at an auction, leaves the mouth after collecting 64 bids, making it the best-selling Rookie debut patch card of all time.
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