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Live Discussion: Pirates Play Game Two Against the Houston Astros

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The Pittsburgh Pirates (6-4) take on the Houston Astros (5-6) in game two of a three-game series on Tuesday night at PNC Park. Game time is 6:35 PM. Lineups can be found below.

Mitch Keller makes his third start of the season. He has a 1-0, 3.86 record. The Astros are sending out right-handed pitcher Cristian Javier, who is 1-0, 3.27 in two starts.

**The Pirates picked up pitcher Eli Villalobos off of waivers today from the Miami Marlins. He has been optioned to Indianapolis.

We knew it was coming, but it didn’t take them long to place Oneil Cruz on the 60-day Injured List.

**The Pirates gave injury updates on JT Brubaker, Jared Triolo, Mike Burrows and Lonnie White Jr today, via Director of Sports Medicine Todd Tomczyk.

That link also has some minor roster moves for Indianapolis.

**Anthony Murphy has some early Statcast observations from the Indianapolis Indians after nine games.

**Jeff Reed looked at the match-ups this week around the minors for the four full-season affiliates of the Pirates. The is the first full week for Altoona, Bradenton and Greensboro.

**Brad Case has been assigned to Bradenton. He had a minor setback while getting ready for Opening Day, which landed him on the Altoona injured list. This will be his debut if he pitches today.

**Anymore news comes up, we will add it here.

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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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