Paul Skenes was seen enjoying his offseason with Livvy Dunne in Hawaii on Friday.
The couple was spotted at a resort in Kauai, seemingly celebrating the marriage of Skenes’ fellow Pirates teammate, Jared Jones, and his partner, Rylie Fox, according to posts on Dunne’s Instagram story.
Skenes and Dunne were lounging by the pool at a resort and were later seen driving in a golf cart.
The couple’s vacation comes just days after Skenes, 23, took home the National League Cy Young award, the first of his young career.
Skenes won the award unanimously and is the first to do so since Miami righty Sandy Alcantara in 2022.
“Winning it is one thing. It being a unanimous decision is another,” Skenes said upon winning the award, per MLB.com. “It’s pretty special. The Cy Young Award is the Cy Young Award. Every baseball fan knows it. I’ve had a month to think about it now, after the season ended and what would it mean.
“That’s the answer I’ve come upon, is that it doesn’t change anything about the season that I had whether I win it or not. Same way I thought about the Rookie of the Year Award last year. It’s a tremendous honor, but we play this game because we love the game. We love to pitch and to win.”
Through 32 starts this season for Pittsburgh, Skenes had a MLB-best 1.97 ERA while striking out 216 batters in 187⅔ innings pitched.
Despite his dominating stats, Skenes finished with a 10-10 record, a testament to the lack of success from the Pirates, who finished with a 71-91 record — last place in the NL Central.
Skenes recently opened up on how he is not used to losing and how it is starting to take a toll on him.
“It’s tough,” Skenes said during an appearance on “The Dan Patrick Show” Tuesday. “It’s a huge adjustment. The Air Force is the winningest organization in the world, and I go to LSU and win a national championship. Obviously, I haven’t had two great years team-wise in Pittsburgh, so it’s been an adjustment.
“It’s tough not to show up to the field every day and be bitter sometimes, especially we’re on a seven-, eight-game skid. I think it just comes down to being professional. I’ve learned more and more how to do that and be the same person each day. It is energizing to think about what it could be, if and when we do win, so that’s the thing that gets me out of bed.”
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