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AFL Recap: Contreras, Mlodzinski and Burrows Make Their Fall Debuts

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Peoria came into Tuesday afternoon with an 0-5 record to start their 30-game fall schedule. The first Pittsburgh Pirates starter saw action today, but he wasn’t the last Pirates pitcher of the day. All four of them ended up pitching in the game. Ji-hwan Bae batted lead-off and played second base. He was the only Pirates hitter in the starting lineup. Here’s a recap of today’s action.

Roansy Contreras got the starts and lasted two innings. He got a fly ball to start the game, then walked the next batter on four pitches. That was followed by a single from Spencer Torkelson (2020 first overall pick), putting two men on. Contreras got out of the inning on 14 pitches by getting a fly ball and a pop out to Bae. The fly ball came on a 3-0 pitch. He gave up a lead-off single in the second, then committed a balk. After a ground out and a line out, a two-out single made it 1-0. After a stolen base, he struck out the next batter. Conteras allowed one run on three hits, one walk and one strikeout. He threw 28 pitches/17 strikes.

Michael Burrows came on next and the first batter reached on an infield single. Torkelson then doubled, but the runner from first base was thrown out trying to score. Burrows then got a fly ball and a ground out to keep any runs off of the board. He threw 15 pitches in the inning, ten for strikes. In the fourth inning, he retired the side in order on a pop up, a ground out and a strikeout. He needed 11 pitches to get through the inning, with nine going for strikes. Burrows made quick work of the first two batters in the fifth, getting a line out and a ground out on three pitches total. Five pitches later, he was out of the inning on a strikeout. That finished his day with three shutout innings, retiring the final eight batters he faced.

Carmen Mlodzinski came out for the sixth and struck out Torkelson on four pitches. He got a ground out for the second out, then gave up a single. The next batter flew out to right field to end the inning. He needed 20 pitches to get out of the inning, 13 going for strikes. That was his only inning of work.

Here’s the strikeout versus Torkelson:

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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