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P2Live: The Debut of Luis Ortiz Won’t be the Only Change for Tuesday’s Pirates/Rockies Game

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Coming off of a 2-0 victory, the Pittsburgh Pirates (21-15) take on the Colorado Rockies (14-22) at PNC Park tonight, with first pitch scheduled for 6:35 PM.

Luis Ortiz will be on the mound for his season debut, taking the rotation spot of Vince Velasquez, who was placed on the Injured List last week. More on Ortiz later when the move becomes official. The Rockies are countering with right-handed pitcher Connor Seabold (0-0, 5.30), who has pitched 18.2 innings over one start and seven relief appearances.

According to Jason Mackey, this isn’t the only change for the Pirates today.

More on that move once it becomes official as well. Both Ortiz and Palacios should be announced at the same time, but if one goes first, there will be an article up for it shortly after it happens.

Since this is going up early, here are some links from yesterday (plus one from today) that you may have missed. 

**UPDATE UPDATE: Here are some minor league moves from today, with more possibly to come

**UPDATE: Here are the moves from today.

**Pirates Prospects Daily: One Affiliate Short of All Teams Above .500

**Mitch Keller Ends the Pirates’ Losing Streak With a Complete Game Shutout

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

**Top Performers: Aaron Shackelford and Caleb Smith Lead the Way The best in the minor league system over the past week

**Wyatt Langford is starting to show why some people liked him better than Dylan Crews. Things are getting a bit interesting. Our weekly look at how the draft is shaping up. 

UMPIRE SCORECARD

Hey, what’s going on here? Two strong umpired games in a row? Notice that the biggest calls in the game all went for the Pirates, though there were only four missed calls all game.

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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