A look at how the current top 30 prospects did today. If a player is in the majors and loses his prospect eligibility, he will be removed. Everyone below him will be shifted up a spot, and a new player will be added to the bottom of the list. If a player is out for the season, he will be removed and everyone below him will move up a spot. Removing these guys doesn’t mean they have lost prospect status. It is just an attempt to get 30 active prospects on the list. Rankings are from the 2016 mid-season update, and links on each name go to their Pirates Prospects player pages.
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Altoona finished their regular season on Monday. They begin the playoffs on Wednesday night at home with Alex McRae on the mound facing Akron in a best-of-five first round series.
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Bradenton began the FSL playoffs against St Lucie on Tuesday night with Mitch Keller on the mound. Before he threw a pitch, Keller had a 6-0 lead. He started off strong, but by the end of the outing, Keller had one of his worst starts of the season. Now keep in mind that he had a fantastic season, so saying it was one of his worst has to be kept in perspective. Keller retired the side in order quickly in the first inning, getting two strikeouts on curves, while also hitting 99 MPH.
In the second inning, Keller didn’t have an easy frame, though all he allowed was a single. He threw 22 pitches this inning, with ten being used on the last batter, who grounded out to shortstop. Keller worked a quick third inning, which included two more strikeouts.
The fourth inning is where he started to lose it this game. Keller walked two batters and threw a wild pitch. He didn’t allow any runs, but the combo of two walks and two more strikeouts raised his pitch count and set up the next inning.
The fifth began with a fly out, then his third walk. That set a season-high for base on balls for Keller, who walked 19 batters in 130.1 innings during the regular season. The next batter singled, then Keller threw his second wild pitch. A single back to Keller scored the first run, but a second run scored when he threw the ball away. After picking up his eighth strikeout, he uncorked his third wild pitch. That was followed by a double, which scored a third run off Keller.
Following a single and a ground out in the sixth, Keller was pulled from the game. He went 5.1 innings, with five hits, three runs, three walks and eight strikeouts, as well as three wild pitches. Despite the walks and wild pitches, Keller threw 61 of his 89 pitches for strikes, so that’s a very strong percentage of strikes. He also had a 5:2 GO/AO ratio. This was just the third time all season he allowed eight base runners in a game. The eight strikeouts tie a Bradenton playoff record, which was set by Tyler Glasnow.
As mentioned at the start, Bradenton took an early 6-0 lead and it started with five consecutive singles, followed by Jordan Luplow taking a 96 MPH fastball to the dome. He stayed in the game and scored one batter later as Christian Kelley singled, then made it to third base on an errant throw, clearing the bases.
Bradenton had another big inning left in them and Luplow ended up with the big hit in that inning. Up 6-3 after six innings, the Marauders scored five runs in the seventh, with three of those runs coming on a three-run homer from Luplow. It was the first home run ever for Bradenton in the postseason, now in their fourth season of making the playoffs.
Tanner Anderson allowed one run in the seventh, then Jose Regalado threw a scoreless eighth before Sam Street made things interesting with two runs in the ninth inning. Bradenton won 11-6, taking game one of the best-of-three series on the road. The next two (if necessary) games are at home, with JT Brubaker scheduled to pitch game two and Yeudy Garcia will go game three if needed. If not, he will start game one of the finals.
Pablo Reyes had a big game, collecting four hits and scoring two runs. Both Kevin Kramer and Chase Simpson had three hits and scored two runs. Simpson drove in three runs, as did Luplow. Jerrick Suiter had two hits, drove in two runs and scored twice.
This was an odd game for the offense. Despite scoring 11 runs, the Marauders had one walk and 16 strikeouts. Connor Joe was 0-for-5 with four strikeouts. Cole Tucker, Luplow and Kelley each had three strikeouts.
