Lehigh Valley lefthander Cole Irvin shook off a difficult first inning to finish with a memorable triple A debut on Monday. After allowing two first inning runs, he settled down in the IronPigs’ 5-3 loss at Scranton/Wilkes Barre.
A fifth round draft choice out of Oregon in 2016, Irvin allowed the two runs in five innings, striking out 10 and walking just one. He threw 83 pitches, 51 for strikes.
“I didn’t execute pitches early and that is why you saw two early runs,” Irvin said to the IronPigs radio broadcasters. “…It was a little bit of a rocky start, but what is rocky if I had 10 strikeouts?