This one featured a really good pitching matchup as Keider Montero looked to defend home turf against perhaps the best pitching prospect in baseball in Paul Skenes. Montero was good, Skenes was fearsome, and neither factored at all in the decision nor allowed any runs. Instead this went to the 11th inning thanks to Justyn-Henry Malloy’s heroics, and the Hens ultimately walked it off.
Montero spun four innings of two hit ball with six strikeouts, allowing no runs. He did walk three, and the occasional burst of control issues cropped up, but overall the Pirates farmhands couldn’t do much with him.