<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/pirates-news-mitch-kellers-drop-form-befuddling-shocking-comparison');   ga('set', 'title', 'Mitch Keller’s wild drop in form for Pirates gets more befuddling with shocking comparison');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Pirates-news-Mitch-Keller_s-wild-drop-in-form-gets-more-befuddling-with-shocking-comparison.jpg"></figure><h1>Mitch Keller’s wild drop in form for Pirates gets more befuddling with shocking comparison</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-08-03T19:26:05-07:00">August 3rd, 7:26pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-08-03T19:26:05-07:00">August 3rd, 7:26pm</time><address><a>Scotty White</a>Scotty is a graduate of the University of Michigan and has been in the sports journalism industry since 2020. He has covered athletics at the University of Michigan and the University of Southern California and is now serving as an Associate Editor at ClutchPoints.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Mitch Keller started off the season hot for the Pittsburgh Pirates and was definitely among the better pitchers in baseball. However, he’s dropped off a bit since the beginning of the season, and so have the Pirates. If you take a look at the first 10 <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/pirates-news-mitch-keller-drops-8-word-truth-bomb-over-drastic-reversal-of-fortune-amid-mlb-all-star-game-appearance" rel="noopener">starts for Keller vs. the</a> last 13, the results are astonishing.</p><p>In Keller’s first 10 starts, he had a 2.44 ERA, 10 quality starts and allowed five or <a href="https://twitter.com/JMackeyPG/status/1687260436121473026" rel="noopener">more earned runs zero times</a>, according to a tweet from Jason Mackey. In his last 13 starts, Keller has a 5.64 ERA, four quality starts and he has allowed five or more ER five different times. That’s quite the drop off for the Pirates pitcher.</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/pirates-news-pittsburgh-mixed-injury-update-oneil-cruz" rel="noopener">The Pirates started the season</a> red hot and got out to a 20-9 record, and part of that success was due to good outings from pitchers like Keller. Now, things have gone down hill. Pittsburgh is currently 48-60 and sitting in fourth place in the NL Central, 10 games behind the first place Milwaukee Brewers/Cincinnati Reds. It doesn’t seem like a playoff push is going to be happening for the Pirates, and they weren’t very aggressive at the trade deadline because of it.</p><p>For Keller, he just has to spend the rest of the season trying to get back to where he was at the beginning of the year. Baseball is a very mental game, and it can be very difficult to dig yourself out of a bad slump. However, at the end of the day, Keller knows that he’s capable of being one of the better pitchers in the game because he was one of them at the beginning of the season. We’ll see if Keller and the Pirates have any late season magic up their sleeve.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Mitch Keller’s wild drop in form for Pirates gets more befuddling with shocking comparison

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/pirates-news-mitch-keller-drops-8-word-truth-bomb-over-drastic-reversal-of-fortune-amid-mlb-all-star-game-appearance');   ga('set', 'title', 'Pirates’ Mitch Keller drops 8-word truth bomb over drastic reversal of fortune amid MLB All-Star Game appearance');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Mitch-Keller-Pirates.jpg"></figure><h1>Pirates’ Mitch Keller drops 8-word truth bomb over drastic reversal of fortune amid MLB All-Star Game appearance</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-07-12T00:06:57-07:00">July 12th, 12:06am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-07-12T00:08:56-07:00">July 12th, 12:08am</time><address><a>Rexwell Villas</a>A Communications Arts graduate from the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines, Rex claims to have JR Smith's conscience with his shot selection. He has won a basketball, a baseball, and a football championship in fantasy all within a year.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Mitch Keller still probably can’t believe that he just played in the 2023 MLB All-Star Game. At some point in his career, the thought of <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/2023-mlb-all-star-game-4-bold-predictions-for-event" rel="noopener">being part of the Midsummer Classic</a> was nothing but just a fantasy for him.</p><p><i>“There’s light at the end of the tunnel,” </i> said Keller when the first-timer MLB All-Star was asked what he would like to <a href="https://www.dkpittsburghsports.com/2023/07/11/pirates-all-star-game-mitch-keller-light-tunnel-american-league-win-david-bednar-mlb-ajs?r=AS_e8821901" rel="noopener">tell his younger self</a> three years ago, per Alex Stumpf of DK Pittsburgh Sports.</p><p>Prior to the 2023 MLB season, Mitch Keller carried just a 12-29 record and a 5.00 ERA across 70 appearances (68 starts) in the big leagues, all with the Pirates. Barely any of the numbers he accumulated in the MLB from 2019 to 2021 screamed of All-Star potential for Keller. If anything, his struggles in the past only make his performance so far this year even more admirable.</p><p>So far in the 2023 MLB campaign, Keller has gone 9-4 on the mound with a 3.31 through 19 starts ERA. He is limiting opponents down to only a .220 batting average while also having a .284 BABIP. Keller also has a 26.7 percent strikeout rate and just a 7.0 percent walk rate — clearly much better than his 20.1 K% and 8.7 BB% he finished with in 2022.</p><p>At the 2023 MLB All-Star Game, Keller pitched an inning and allowed an earned run on a hit while recording a strikeout in a 3-2 win by the National League, who won for the first time since 2012.</p><p>Keller was one of two Pirates who made it to the National League All-Star roster, with David Bednar as <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/pirates-news-david-bednar-drops-truth-bomb-on-pittsburgh-tenure-prior-to-all-star-game" rel="noopener">the other Pittsburgh star</a>.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Pirates’ Mitch Keller drops 8-word truth bomb over drastic reversal of fortune amid MLB All-Star Game appearance

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/mitch-keller-accomplishes-feat-no-pirates-pitcher-has-since-1920');   ga('set', 'title', 'Mitch Keller accomplishes feat no Pirates pitcher has since 1920');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Mitch-Keller-accomplishes-feat-no-Pittsburgh-pitcher-ever-has.jpg"></figure><h1>Mitch Keller accomplishes feat no Pirates pitcher has since 1920</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-05-14T14:22:42-07:00">May 14th, 2:22pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-05-14T14:22:42-07:00">May 14th, 2:22pm</time><address><a>Dan Fappiano</a>Dan Fappiano is a Connecticut based sports journalist and a graduate of both Tunxis Community College and Central Connecticut State University. Dan has spent time covering high school and professional sports in both the print and online medium. He hopes to see his beloved Chicago Bears win a Super Bowl someday.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Pittsburgh <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/pirates-moves-nl-central" rel="noopener">Pirates have been</a> one of the major shocking stories in baseball this season. Mitch Keller has been at the center of Pittsburgh’s turnaround. Now, Keller has done something a pitcher in the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/pirates-3-overreactions-to-tremendous-start-to-2023-season" rel="noopener">Pirates organization hasn’t since</a> 1920.</p><p>Pittsburgh defeated the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday, 4-0. In the win, Keller threw seven innings of scoreless baseball, allowing four hits and no walks while striking out 13. He became the first Pirates pitcher to record 13 Ks with no walks and no runs allowed in an inning since the Live-Ball era, which <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNStatsInfo/status/1657835555416076288" rel="noopener">dates back to 1920</a>, via ESPN Stats &amp; Info.</p><p>Back in 2018, Keller ranked as the <a href="https://www.mlb.com/prospects/2018/pirates/" rel="noopener">top prospect</a> in the Pirates’ organization, via MLB Pipeline. He was considered the 16th best prospect in all of baseball. However, his call up to the big leagues didn’t initially go to plan.</p><p>Keller made his debut in 2019, pitching in 11 games. He held a horrid 7.13 ERA, although his 65/16 K/BB ratio pointed towards some promise. After suffering an injury in 2020, Keller returned to pitch 23 games in 2021. However, he once again struggled to a 6.17 ERA.</p><p>Last season, Keller began to turn things around. He lowered his ERA to 3.91 while continuing his strikeout streak with a 138/60 K/BB ratio. Now, the right-hander has seemed to put everything together.</p><p>Through his nine starts this season, Mitch Keller holds an impressive 5-1 record with a 2.38 ERA and a 69/14 K/BB ratio. Keller leads the Pirates in ERA, strikeouts and batting average against (.208).</p><p>If the Pirates – who currently have a 22-19 record – want to continue winning, they’ll need Keller to continue his resurgence. His start against the Orioles was another sign that Keller is ready to become Pittsburgh’s ace.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Mitch Keller accomplishes feat no Pirates pitcher has since 1920

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/pirates-news-mitch-keller-breaks-long-pittsburgh-drought-with-epic-performance-vs-rockies');   ga('set', 'title', 'Mitch Keller breaks long Pittsburgh drought with epic performance vs. Rockies');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Mitch-Keller-Pirates.jpg"></figure><h1>Mitch Keller breaks long Pittsburgh drought with epic performance vs. Rockies</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-05-08T19:32:06-07:00">May 8th, 7:32pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-05-08T19:57:28-07:00">May 8th, 7:57pm</time><address><a>Rexwell Villas</a>A Communications Arts graduate from the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines, Rex claims to have JR Smith's conscience with his shot selection. He has won a basketball, a baseball, and a football championship in fantasy all within a year.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>For the first time in a long, long while, the Pittsburgh Pirates finally had a pitcher go the full route in a game for them. That’s <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mlb-odds-rockies-pirates-prediction-pick-how-to-watch-5-8-2023" rel="noopener">after Mitch Keller went</a> nine innings long in a 2-0 home win against the Colorado Rockies Monday night.</p><p>That start by Mitch Keller broke a Pirates streak of <a href="https://twitter.com/TalkinBaseball_/status/1655734308265500673" rel="noopener">370 outings</a> without having a starting pitcher toss a complete game, as pointed out by Talkin’ Baseball.</p><p>Mitch Keller, who improved to 4-1 with a 2.72 ERA so far in the 2023 MLB regular season, allowed zero earned runs on four hits with eight punchouts across nine full innings versus Colorado. The Rockies couldn’t figure out Keller, who needed just 103 pitches to finish his starting gig.</p><p>Keller avoided arbitration in the offseason by signing a one-year deal worth $2.4374 million deal with the Pirates back in January. He won’t be a free agent until at least the end of the 2025 MLB season with still two more seasons of team control on him. But with the way he’s been dealing on the mound this season, he could ask for a bigger contract the next time he negotiates with the Pirates.</p><p>Pittsburgh is among the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/pirates-3-overreactions-to-tremendous-start-to-2023-season" rel="noopener">early surprises</a> of the season even though it just ended a seven-game losing streak. The Pirates are still on top of the National League Central division with a 21-15 record, thanks in part to Mitch Keller and the team’s pitching staff. So far this year, the Pirates are ninth in the big leagues overall with a 3.78 ERA to go with a 1.34 WHIP.</p><p> </p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

2024 SEASON STATS
IP	ERA	K	WHIP	WINS
534	4.25	166	1.30	11

2024 SEASON STATS
IP	ERA	K	WHIP	WINS
534	4.25	166	1.30	11

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Mitch Keller’s wild drop in form for Pirates gets more befuddling with shocking comparison

Pirates’ Mitch Keller drops 8-word truth bomb over drastic reversal of fortune amid MLB All-Star Game appearance

Mitch Keller accomplishes feat no Pirates pitcher has since 1920

Mitch Keller breaks long Pittsburgh drought with epic performance vs. Rockies

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