{"id":527667,"date":"2026-03-10T21:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/527667\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T21:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:40:08","slug":"this-orioles-pitching-prospect-hopes-to-make-mlb-debut-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/527667\/","title":{"rendered":"This Orioles pitching prospect hopes to make MLB debut in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE, MD (WBFF) \u2014 Facing perhaps the best lineup of his life, Luis De Le\u00f3n looked like he belonged.<\/p>\n<p>The Orioles\u2019 pitching prospect found himself in a small pickle in the first inning Saturday with a runner on third, one out and the heart of the Atlanta Braves\u2019 big league lineup due up. De Le\u00f3n, a 22-year-old lefty who has faced only 68 batters above High-A, was suddenly facing Matt Olson and Austin Riley, a pair of mashers with five All-Star appearances between them.<\/p>\n<p>De Le\u00f3n didn\u2019t flinch.<\/p>\n<p>He threw a first-pitch slider to Olson to induce a weak groundout to first base. He then started Riley off with a slider and ended the eight-pitch at-bat with a 3-2 slider that spun beneath the slugger\u2019s bat to end the inning.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/2026\/03\/07\/orioles-spring-training-luis-de-leon-eyes-mlb-debut-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">full story<\/a> on the Baltimore Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE, MD (WBFF) \u2014 Facing perhaps the best lineup of his life, Luis De Le\u00f3n looked like he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-527667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}