MINNESOTA TWINS Vs. PITTSBURGH PIRATES
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MINNESOTA TWINS vs. PITTSBURGH PIRATES March 19, 2018 - LECOM Park in Bradenton, FL TODAY: The Pirates are playing the Twins in Bradenton at 1:05...Nick Kingham is expected to start for Pittsburgh against Minnesota’s Tyler Duffy (RHP)...Michael Feliz and Josh Smoker are also scheduled to pitch for the Bucs. NICK KINGHAM: The 26-year-old righthander is making his fourth start/fifth appearance of the spring today...Most recently pitched in relief on 3/14 vs. Rays (0.2ip/3h/4r/4er/1bb/1so)...Made his last start on 3/18 vs. Tigers (30.0ip/3h/3r/1er/2bb/2so)...Also started on 3/1 vs. Blue Jays (3.0ip/3h/1r/1er/2bb/2so) and pitched 2.0 scoreless on 2/24 vs. Yankees...Set a minor league career high in wins last season, going 10-6 over the course of 21 games (20 starts) between Bradenton and Indianapolis; made 20 of the 21 appearances at the Triple-A level...Enters the 2018 season ranked by Baseball America as the eighth-best prospect in the Pirates organiza- tion...Underwent Tommy John surgery on 5/27/15 and spent a majority of the the 2016 season rehabbing the injury...Was selected by Pittsburgh in the fourth round of the 2010 First-Year Player Draft...Rated as having the “Best Changeup” in the Bucco system prior to the 2014 campaign. AT PIRATE CITY: Ivan Nova (100 pitches), Felipe Rivero (2.0ip), George Kontos (2.0ip), Dovydas Neverauskas (1.0ip) and Bo Schultz (1.0ip) are scheduled to pitch in a minor league game today at Pirate City. TOMORROW: The Pirates are scheduled to play the Red Sox in Fort Myers at 1:05...Joe Musgrove is expected to start for Pittsburgh against Boston’s David Price (RHP)... Kevin Siegrist, Edgar Santana and Tyler Jones are also scheduled to pitch for the Bucs. THE ROSTER: There are currently 48 active players in Major League camp (24 pitchers, 5 catchers, 12 infielders and 7 outfielders), including 13 non-roster players...RHP Nick Burdi (right elbow surgery on 5/31/17) is currently on the 60-day disabled list...Daniel Nava is out of action for 10-12 weeks after undergoing back surgery on 2/27. BUCS IN BRADENTON: The Pirates are celebrating their 50th season of play in Bradenton, having first held spring training in the “Friendly City” in 1969...Only the Tigers (in Lakeland since 1934) and the Phillies (in Clearwater since 1947) have held spring training in their respective cities longer than the Pirates. PIRATES GOLD: The Pirates have hit 35 home runs this spring, their highest output since hitting 39 in 2009...Francisco Cervelli has homered in back-to-back games and has eight hits in his last 13 at bats...Elias Díaz has reached base safely in five straight games and has homered three times in his last 16 at bats...Corey Dickerson has eight hits in his last 20 at bats...Adam Frazier has collected 13 hits in his last 26 at bats...Josh Harrison has reached base safely in five straight games and in six of his last seven...Jordan Luplow has four hits in his last six at bats...Starling Marte homered on Sunday and has reached base safely in 10 of his 11 games this spring; he has 14 hits in his last 32 at bats (.438)...Colin Moran is hitting .367 (11-for-30) over his last nine games...José Osuna is hitting .324 (11-for-34) in 17 games this spring and leads the team in RBI (12)...Gregory Polanco has reached base safely in eight of his last nine games and has produced seven hits in his last 17 at bats...Sean Rodríguez leads the team with four homer runs and has reached base safely in nine of 11 games overall. DATE OPPONENT W/L SCORE RECORD PITCHERS OF RECORD (W/L/S) ATTENDANCE HOME ATT./AVG. 2/23 at Rays L 3-6 0-1 Austin Pruitt/Alex McRae (0-1)/Edwin Fierro 5,141 2/24 vs. Yankees L 1-4 0-2 J.P. Feyereisen/Richard Rodríguez (0-1)/Jonathan Holder (sellout) 7,814 7,814/7,814 2/25 at Tigers T 8-8 0-2-1 --------------------- 4,729 2/26 vs. Red Sox L 2-13 0-3-1 Justin Haley/Ivan Nova (0-1) 5,556 13,370/6,685 2/27 at Braves T 3-3 0-3-2 --------------------- 3,220 2/28 at Red Sox L 3-4 0-4-2 Robby Scott/Kyle Crick (0-1)/Kyle Hart 9,356 3/1 vs. Blue Jays W 4-1 1-4-2 Clay Holmes (1-0)/Chris Rowley/John Stilson (1) 5,057 18,427/6,142 3/2 at Orioles L 8-10 1-5-2 Asher Wojciechowski/Damien Magnifico (0-1)/Donnie Hart 5,265 3/3 vs. Phillies W 4-3 2-5-2 John Stilson (1-0)/Brandon Leibrandt/Brett McKinney (1) 5,762 24,189/6,047 3/4 at Twins W 9-3 3-5-2 Steven Brault (1-0)/Anibal Sanchez 8,386 3/5 at Braves L 5-7 3-6-2 Brandon McCarthy/Chad Kuhl (0-1)/Miguel Socolovich 4,224 3/6 OFF DAY 3/7 at Blue Jays L 3-14 3-7-2 J.A. Happ/Tyler Glasnow (0-1) 3,052 3/8 vs. Tigers W 8-3 4-7-2 Felipe Rivero (1-0)/Daniel Stumpf 7,124 31,313/6,263 3/9 at Phillies W 5-4 5-7-2 Steven Brault (2-0)/Jared Eickhoff/Alex McRae (1) 7,713 3/10 vs. Braves L 1-15 5-8-2 Mike Foltynewicz/Trevor Williams (0-1) 4,935 36,248/6,041 at Orioles L 5-13 5-9-2 Jayson Aquino/Chad Kuhl (0-2) 6,197 3/11 at Blue Jays W 5-0 6-9-2 Clay Holmes (2-0)/Joe Biagini 4,752 3/12 vs. Orioles L 5-8 6-10-2 Dylan Bundy/Dovydas Neverauskas (0-1)/Mike Wright, Jr. 5,523 41,771/5,967 3/13 OFF DAY 3/14 vs. Rays L 3-9 6-11-2 Yonny Chirinos/Ivan Nova (0-2) 6,218 47,989/5,999 3/15 at Yankees L 5-9 6-12-2 Sonny Gray/Brett McKinney (0-1)/Benn Heller 10,146 3/16 vs. Braves W 12-9 7-12-2 Jameson Taillon (1-0)/Aaron Blair/Tyler Eppler (1) 5,841 53,830/5,981 3/17 vs. Twins W 13-5 8-12-2 Chad Kuhl (1-2)/Phil Hughes 5,868 59,698/5,970 3/18 at Blue Jays L 2-5 8-13-2 Roberto Osuna/Casey Sadler (0-1)/Tyler Clippard 5,057 vs. Red Sox L 1-2 8-14-2 Brian Johnson/Tyler Glasnow (0-2)/Ryan Braiser 7,035 66,733/6,067 3/19 vs. Twins 3/20 at Red Sox 3/21 at Twins (6:05) 3/22 vs. Blue Jays (6:05) 3/23 vs. Phillies 3/24 vs. Rays 3/25 at Blue Jays 3/26 vs. Phillies 3/27 at Phillies WORLD CHAMPIONS 1909 • 1925 • 1960 • 1971 • 1979 NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 1901 • 1902 • 1903 • 1927 N.L. DIVISION CHAMPIONS 1970 • 1972 • 1974 • 1975 • 1990 • 1991 • 1992 N.L. WILD CARD 2013 • 2014 • 2015 PITCHING DAY BY DAYS (players still in camp - * denotes game started) STEVEN BRAULT CHAD KUHL RICHARD RODRIGUEZ DATE OPP DECISION IP H R ER BB SO DATE OPP DECISION IP H R ER BB SO DATE OPP DECISION IP H R ER BB SO 2/27 * at Atl -- 2.0 0 0 0 1 1 2/28 * at Bos -- 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 2/24 vs. NYY L (0-1) 1.0 3 3 3 1 1 3/4 at Min W (1-0) 2.0 0 0 0 0 1 3/5 * at Atl L (0-1) 2.1 5 3 3 2 3 2/27 at Atl -- 1.0 1 0 0 1 0 3/9 * at Phi W 2-0) 2.2 5 3 2 0 1 3/10 * at Bal L (0-2) 2.1 7 8 8 3 3 3/2 at Bal -- 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 3/12 THREW LIVE BP (20 pitches) 3/17 * vs. Min W (1-2) 4.1 5 3 3 1 2 3/4 at Min -- 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 3/18 * at Tor -- 4.0 1 0 0 1 1 3/9 at Phi -- 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 BRETT McKINNEY 3/18 at Tor -- 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 DATE OPP DECISION IP H R ER BB SO KYLE CRICK CASEY SADLER DATE OPP DECISION IP H R ER BB SO 2/23 at TB -- 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 2/27 at Atl -- 1.0 1 1 1 0 1 DATE OPP DECISION IP H R ER BB SO 2/24 vs. NYY -- 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 2/23 at TB -- 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 2/28 at Bos L (0-1) 1.0 3 2 2 0 2 3/3 vs. Phi SV (1) 1.0 0 0 0 0 3 3/8 vs. Det -- 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 2/25 at Det -- 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 3/3 vs. Phi -- 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 2/28 at Bos -- 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 3/8 vs.