SPOKANE, Wash. \u2014 Former Gonzaga Bulldogs pitcher William Kempner made his major league debut with the Miami Marlins last night.<\/p>\n
Kempner pitched a perfect inning of relief, which included his first major league strikeout of Baltimore Orioles outfielder Colton Cowser.<\/p>\n
The righthander was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in 2022 after three years pitching at Gonzaga.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On January 15, 2025, Kempner was traded to the Marlins in exchange for international pool money.<\/p>\n
He was recalled from Triple-A Jacksonville on Tuesday morning after pitcher Chris Paddack was designated for assignment.<\/p>\n
Kempner was sent back to Jacksonville on Wednesday as the Marlins try to keep bullpen arms fresh in a stretch of 26 games in 27 days.<\/p>\n
Kempner joins Casey Legumina (Seattle Mariners\/Tampa Bay Rays), Alek Jacob (San Diego Padres) and Eli Morgan (Kansas City Royals) as former Zags who have pitched in the major leagues this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOKANE, Wash. \u2014 Former Gonzaga Bulldogs pitcher William Kempner made his major league debut with the Miami Marlins…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-261447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}