Pittsburgh Pirates star pitcher Paul Skenes officially won the National League's Rookie of the Year award on Monday night. Cal Ripken broke the news on MLB Network and when the camera panned to a live shot of Skenes with his girlfriend,

But the game featured an intriguing matchup within the matchup: two starting pitchers with vastly different backgrounds and histories who happened to be leading contenders for the Rookie of the Year Award in their respective leagues to the mound opposite each other.