Mitch Keller dominated the Texas Rangers last night as the Bucs’ right-hander rebounded from a miserable start to his month of August. Joe Block recaps the Pirates’ shutout.
Manager Derek Shelton says Keller was untouchable.
Shelton says Keller had great stuff and went right after the Rangers.
The Bucs’ skipper says his hitters were patient against Rangers starter Cody Bradford.
For this afternoon’s series finale in Arlington, Domingo Germán [0-0, 3.00 ERA in his only three games] will make his first start for the Pirates against the Rangers’ Andrew Heaney [4-13, 4.20 ERA]. It’s a 2:10 airtime, 2:35 first pitch on WCCS.
The Pirates may have more pitching help on the way after rehabbing starter Jared Jones threw five shutout innings, giving up just one hit and a walk and striking out ten for Indianapolis in what turned into a 2-1 11-inning loss to Columbus. Jones has been out over a month with a lat muscle strain. He threw 75 pitches in the outing.
The game featured an Indianapolis lineup full of Pirates players on rehab assignments. Reliever Ryan Borucki threw a scoreless sixth inning, Colin Holderman gave up a home run in the seventh, and Carmen Mlodzinski threw a scoreless eighth. Nick Gonzalez played second base and was 1-for-3 at the plate.
ALTOONA CURVE
Altoona beat Richmond, 7-5, in the opener of a six-game series in Virginia. Kervin Pichardo and Tsung-Che Cheng both hit home runs and Mike Jarvis and Jase Bowen each had two hits. Jack Carey threw 2-and-one-third innings of scoreless relief for the win.
Nick Dombkowski starts for the Curve in the second game of the series tonight.
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