{"id":734411,"date":"2026-06-24T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/734411\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:00:17","slug":"mitch-keller-believes-theres-lot-of-positives-from-mariners-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/734411\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch Keller Believes There&#8217;s &#8216;Lot Of Positives&#8217; From Mariners Outing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/pittsburgh-pirates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> right-hander Mitch Keller believes he\u2019s starting to turn the corner after his latest outing.<\/p>\n<p>Keller has been struggling as of late, but on Tuesday, he looked like his old self against the Seattle Mariners. The right-hander went six innings, allowing three runs on seven hits, while he struck out four, as Keller believes there are positives to be taken away from it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely a lot of positives from the way it&#8217;s been going,\u201d Keller <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/pirates\/news\/mitch-keller-walks-one-in-start-vs-mariners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> postgame on Tuesday. \u201c&#8230; Getting back to what I&#8217;m good at. I throw six different pitches, and using those to get ahead, rather than just handcuffing myself to a couple, just keeping it open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keller was also efficient with his pitch count was at just 76 pitches through six innings. He went into the seventh and gave up a double before a go-ahead home run to Cole Young and a walk before he was removed from the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought about [going to Montgomery],\u201d manager Don Kelly said. \u201cMitch pitched so well up until that point, and we had Montgomery ready for later. We were trying to get Mitch through [Victor] Robles. Unfortunately, it didn&#8217;t happen, but he had pitched so well up until that point. Trusting him to go back out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates ended up losing 3-2 and fell to 39-40 on the season.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/pittsburgh-pirates\/news\/pirates-get-major-injury-update-konnor-griffin\/6ac61320fedf0bdd48233ec6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pirates Get Major Injury Update On Konnor Griffin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander Mitch Keller believes he\u2019s starting to turn the corner after his latest outing. Keller has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,4,10,776,64,4297],"class_list":["post-734411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-pittsburghpirates"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116805685948247630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}