The Mariners conclude their homestand on Sunday against the Pirates with a premier pitching matchup featuring two of baseball’s best young right-handers.

Kirby bested Skenes over the early part of the game, with five punchouts and eight whiffs through the first two innings, to Skenes’s four Ks and nine whiffs.

After missing the first couple of months of the season with inflammation in his pitching shoulder, Seattle right-hander George Kirby appears to be rounding into top form.