On a day when the Pirates received some bad news on the pitching front, JT Brubaker gave the team a bit of a shot in the arm Wednesday with five solid innings in a 6-3 win over the Atlanta Braves at LECOM Park in Bradenton.
The club, now 12-10 in Grapefruit League play after its fourth straight win, announced prior to the game that left-hander Steven Brault, who figured to be entrenched in the starting rotation, would be sidelined approximately 2 ½ months with a moderate left lat muscle strain.
Brault was coming off a solid 2020 season in which he put together a 3.