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\n Even before he emerged from the bullpen Friday, the Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a>\u2019 Bubba Chandler was considered the top pitching prospect in baseball.\n <\/p>\n \n And the hard-throwing 22-year-old confirmed those credentials in his major league<\/a> debut, becoming the first pitcher<\/a> to throw four scoreless innings and record a save in his debut since saves became an officially recognized statistic in 1969, according to AP.\n <\/p>\n \n He allowed just two hits and struck out three in those four innings, needing 40 pitches to get the 12 outs and clinch a 9-0 win for the Pirates against the Colorado Rockies.\n <\/p>\n \n Although he gave up a double to the first batter he faced, Orlando Arcia, he rallied and struck out Ryan Ritter and Mickey Moniak, while Tyler Freeman ground out, stranding Arcia.\n <\/p>\n \n Chandler\u2019s decisive pitches to Ritter and Moniak clocked in at 99.9 mph and 100.4 mph, respectively \u2013 the fastest pitches for strikeouts that any Pirate has thrown this year.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cWelcome to the show, huh,\u201d Chandler said afterward, recalling Arcia\u2019s double. \u201cThought I made a good pitch but he hit it pretty hard. Kind of a scare, you don\u2019t want to give up a homer on your first at-bat but it was pretty sweet. After that at-bat, my emotions kind of slowed down and it was great.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Despite being just 22 years old, Chandler\u2019s impressive performances at Triple-A Indianapolis made him \u201cmad\u201d that he hadn\u2019t been called up already.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cIn the end, I\u2019m here in the big leagues,\u201d he told reporters afterward, per MLB. \u201cThere\u2019s not a lot of 22-year-old kids that get to do this. I\u2019m grateful. I was mad, yeah, whatever. But at the same time I didn\u2019t need to take care of what I needed to take care of, so that falls back on me. Now I\u2019m here. Don\u2019t care.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cStress, I guess stress is a big thing. I\u2019ve never really been a stressed-out guy, but I have been the past couple months just trying to get here.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Chandler\u2019s emergence further strengthens the Pirates\u2019 pitching staff, which also includes last year\u2019s NL Rookie of the Year Paul Skenes.\n <\/p>\n \n Elsewhere, the San Diego Padres defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-1 to tie with their rivals at the top of the NL West. Yu Darvish allowed just one hit across six innings and combined with three relievers to dominate the Dodgers.\n <\/p>\n \n Meanwhile, the Boston Red Sox took a 1-0 victory against the New York Yankees behind Brayan Bello\u2019s seven scoreless innings, securing the season series over their rivals.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link Even before he emerged from the bullpen Friday, the Pittsburgh Pirates\u2019 Bubba Chandler was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-104942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Pittsburgh](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ap25235053795208.jpg\")
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