Two young pitchers go head-to-head in the last game of the 2020 opening series between the Pirates and Cardinals at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. The first pitch will be at 2:15 p.m. Eastern, with AT&T SportsNet broadcasting the game.
Mitch Keller will take the mound for the Bucs, his first outing of the season. He struggled somewhat in his 2019 rookie season, going 1-5 with a 7.13 ERA, but he has worked at length with technology on his fastball spin and changeup during the offseason. Hopefully that work, both with Rapsodo and Oscar Marin, will pay off today.