A third straight loss for the Pirates in Chicago, and this time in extra innings and in an embarrassing way.
Greg Brown reports.
PIRATES’ MINORS
Altoona lost for the fifth straight time, falling 5-0 to Akron. Jack Sulwinski had two hits for the Curve for the second straight game.
The Pirates High-A Greensboro team continues to turn heads in the minor leagues. The Grasshoppers raised their record to 67-38 with a doubleheader sweep of the Yankees’ Hudson Valley High-A team.
Last year’s top draft pick, Nick Gonzalez, continued to abuse Class A pitching, going 2-for-4 with a double and triple in the first game, a 10-7 win. 2019 first rounder Quinn Priester had another dominating performance in the nightcap, with six scoreless innings in a 2-0 shutout.
Priester is 7-3 overall with a five-game winning streak. He’s pitched 12 straight scoreless innings, striking out nineteen. Opponents are hitting only .216 off him this year.
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