By WILL GRAVES

Associated Press

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes was knocked around by the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night, allowing a career-high five runs in a 5-3 loss at frigid PNC Park.

Skenes (1-1), who was electric in his first two starts this season, was spotty this time around. The 22-year-old reigning National League Rookie of the Year allowed six hits with a walk and seven strikeouts as his ERA more than doubled from 1.46 to 3.44.

Victor Scott II had two hits, including a two-run triple off Skenes in the third. Brendan Donovan had two hits for St. Louis and followed Scott’s first-career three-base hit with an RBI single that put the Cardinals up 3-0.

Sonny Gray (2-0) breezed through five innings for St. Louis, surrendering just one run and three hits. Gray’s only mistake came on a sinker to Bryan Reynolds in the fourth that the designated hitter sent into the right-field seats for his second homer this season.

The Cardinals extended the lead to 5-1 in the sixth on an RBI single by Alec Burleson and a run-scoring groundout by Pedro Pages. Phil Maton picked up his first save when he got Tommy Pham to line out to right to end it as the Cardinals won for just the second time in eight games.

With a game-time temperature of 38 degrees and a wind chill that dipped into the 20s, Skenes seemed primed for another dominant performance when he raced through the first two innings.

Instead, three of the first four batters in the third reached and all three scored on a night that Skenes was more hittable than usual while throwing 63 of his 98 pitches for strikes.

Andrew McCutchen’s

inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park on Tuesday, in Pittsburgh.

Justin Berl/Getty Images/TNS run-scoring groundout in the ninth made him the 221st player in major league history to with 1,100 RBIs. TIGERS 5, YANKEES 0 DETROIT (AP) — Tarik Skubal allowed four hits over six innings, Spencer Torkelson hit the first of three homers in the fourth inning off Carlos Carrasco and the Detroit Tigers extended their winning streak to five, beating the Yankees 5-0 Tuesday and dealing New York its first shutout loss this season.

Skubal (1-2), the reigning AL Cy Young Award winner, struck out six and walked none, lowering his ERA from 5.91 to 3.78. He allowed singles to Paul Goldschmidt and Ben Rice starting the game, then retired 16 straight batters. He escaped the first-inning trouble when he struck out AL MVP Aaron Judge, retired Jazz Chisholm Jr. on a groundout and threw a called third strike past Anthony Volpe. Brant Hurter finished a six-hitter for his second save in a game that took 2 hours, 4 minutes.

Zach McKinstry and Dillon Dingler added consecutive homers in the fourth against Carrasco (1-1), who has a 7.71 ERA, and Kerry Carpenter homered off Ryan Yarbrough in the fifth.

New York has lost three straight games and has scored just two runs in the first two games of the series, shifted to daytime because of cold weather. The game started with a 34-degree temperature and 28-degree wind chill.

Goldschmidt had three hits and is batting .381.

Cody Bellinger missed the game with a case of suspected food poisoning.

Detroit placed outfielder Manuel Margot (left knee inflammation) and catcher Jake Rogers (left oblique tightness) on the injured list and recalled outfielder Brewer Hicklen from Toledo and selected the contract of catcher Tomas Nido from the Mud Hens.