{"id":101218,"date":"2025-08-28T03:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101218\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T03:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:36:08","slug":"pirates-prospect-bubba-chandler-gets-first-mlb-win-in-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101218\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates prospect Bubba Chandler gets first MLB win in relief"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. LOUIS — Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> prized pitching prospect Bubba Chandler<\/a> has lived up to the hype so far.<\/p>\n

Chandler led the Pirates to a 2-1 victory<\/a> over the St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> on Wednesday night, pitching four scoreless innings of relief to earn his first MLB win in his second major league game.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-3 right-hander allowed one hit, struck out three and walked one.<\/p>\n

Pirates prospect Bubba Chandler allowed one hit, struck out three and walked one in four scoreless innings of relief against the Cardinals to earn his first major league win.\u00a0Jeff Curry-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old Chandler picked up the save in his MLB debut on Friday night, also working four scoreless innings in relief.<\/p>\n

Chandler’s arrival has provided a glimmer of hope<\/a> for Pittsburgh in another lost season. He could join Paul Skenes<\/a> in a potentially formidable rotation for the Pirates as soon as next year.<\/p>\n

But Chandler is working out of the bullpen for now as a way to ease his transition to the majors while the last-place Pirates closely monitor his innings.<\/p>\n

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Chandler entered Wednesday night’s game after starter Carmen Mlodzinski<\/a> pitched three innings of one-run ball.<\/p>\n

After Chandler retired the side in order in the fourth, St. Louis put runners on first and second with one out in the fifth. Ivan Herrera<\/a> lined out to center field on a 100.4 mph fastball and Alec Burleson<\/a> flied out, ending the inning.<\/p>\n

Chandler hit Masyn Winn<\/a> with a pitch with two outs in the sixth before retiring Thomas Saggese<\/a> on a grounder to shortstop. Chandler also worked a perfect seventh before he was replaced by Isaac Mattson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Widely regarded as one of baseball’s top pitching prospects, Chandler went 5-6 with a 4.05 ERA in 24 starts for Triple-A Indianapolis before he was brought up by the Pirates. The Georgia native was a third-round selection in the 2021 amateur draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS — Pittsburgh Pirates prized pitching prospect Bubba Chandler has lived up to the hype so far.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-101218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}