{"id":773695,"date":"2026-08-09T00:15:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T00:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/773695\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T00:15:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T00:15:37","slug":"pirates-keller-talks-season-ending-injury-its-extremely-disappointing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/773695\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates\u2019 Keller talks season-ending injury: \u2018It\u2019s extremely disappointing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">This article originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/\">PGHBaseballNOW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Pirates veteran starter Mitch Keller was not having the season he was hoping for, and the right-hander won\u2019t get an opportunity to try and finish the year on a high note.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Pirates placed Keller on the 60-day injured list on Monday with a right arm teres major muscle injury, ending his season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cObviously, not the news you wanted to hear,\u201d Keller said. \u201cI wanted to finish out the year and help us, but not gonna happen.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/pittsburgh-pirates-mitch-keller-season-ending-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/pittsburgh-pirates-mitch-keller-season-ending-injury\/\">Click here to read more on PGHBaseballNOW.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This article originally appeared on PGHBaseballNOW. Pirates veteran starter Mitch Keller was not having the season he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,5344,2540,4163,95412,95415,95416,4,10,95413,95414,39520,95417,2320,776,64,4297],"class_list":["post-773695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-baseball","tag-il","tag-injured-list","tag-mitch-keller","tag-mitch-keller-il","tag-mitch-keller-injured","tag-mitch-keller-injury","tag-mlb","tag-pirates","tag-pirates-il","tag-pirates-injured-list","tag-pirates-pitcher","tag-pirates-season","tag-pitcher","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-pittsburghpirates"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117062672267729842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773695","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=773695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}