The Atlanta Braves are still without Austin Riley but remain optimistic about potentially winning this weekend series against the Pittsburgh Pirates
With a need for another starting pitcher during this stretch of seventeen games in seventeen days, Atlanta’s called reliever back up from Triple-A Gwinnett and is giving him the ball tonight for the series opener against the Pirates. It’s his first career major league start.
The Pirates are sending fellow lefty Bailey Falter to the mound in what projects to be a lefty-heavy series - four of the six pitchers that will take the mound between these two teams are left-handers, with Saturday’s matchup of Atlanta’s Reynaldo López vs Pittsburgh’s Mitch Keller being the only righties.As we mentioned above, Kerr’s making his first career Major League start in this one. His previous high in pitches is 64 and his longest outing of the season is 3.
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