PITTSBURGH — Of all of the Pirates’ starting pitchers, Jameson Taillon might have had the best 2017 debut. The Pirates lost, 3-0 to the Red Sox on April 5, but Taillon went seven scoreless innings, giving up five hits and striking out six.
After a spring full of tinkering and fine-tuning his approach on the mound, the challenge going forward for Taillon will be to put his first start success in a bottle and repeat it every five days.
“I liked the way I threw in Boston,” Taillon said. “Not just results-wise, but feeling-wise, the way the ball was coming out.