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P2Live: Pirates Start a Series Against the Colorado Rockies with Keller on the Mound, McCutchen in the Lineup

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The Pittsburgh Pirates (20-15) take on the Colorado Rockies (14-21) in the first of three games at PNC Park on Monday night. First pitch will be at 6:35 PM.

The Pirates are sending out Mitch Keller (3-1, 3.32) to take on veteran lefty Kyle Freeland (3-3, 3.76) in his eighth start of the season.

We have have more on this once it becomes official, but the Pirates are planning to add Chris Owings to the 26-man roster. He needs to be added to the 40-man roster as well, though there’s an opening there. They will need to make a 26-man roster move.

*****UPDATE*****

Chris Owings has been added to the roster officially. Mark Mathias is headed back to Indianapolis. There’s also some Luis Ortiz news there, which is exactly what everyone has assumed since he left his start early on Friday.

Greensboro is up to five catchers in the last four days due to some more moving around, as Wyatt Hendrie gets promoted.

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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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