On paper, Wednesday night’s match up at Sun Trust Park between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Atlanta Braves looked like a pitchers duel between a pair of rising young stars. Mike Soroka, the best rookie pitcher in baseball, took the hill for the Braves. Meanwhile, the Pirates countered with one of the top pitching prospects in all of baseball – Mitch Keller.
This was Keller’s second career start, and, like the first, it did not go according to plan. As we will get to, it was not all Keller’s fault, though. Soroka did not pitch to his normal standards, either.