Pirates to keep Don Kelly as manager; Mansolino a candidate for Orioles’ opening | Sports

PITTSBURGH — Don Kelly feels like he spent his first couple of months as the interim manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates drinking from a fire hose.

At some point after the All-Star break, the pace of the job started to slow down. And a season that was on the verge of careening out of control when he was promoted following Derek Shelton’s firing on May 8 began to get back on track.

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