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AFL Recap: Two Hits for Logan Hill; Mitch Keller Receives Some High Praise

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The Glendale Desert Dogs took on Salt River on Thursday afternoon. Logan Hill was the lone Pirate in the lineup on this day. The game went into extra innings, where Salt River pulled out a 6-3 victory. Glendale is now 8-12 with ten games left in the season.

Logan Hill batted seventh on Thursday. He singled to lead-off the third inning, but was picked-off of first base. Hill singled on a ground ball to left field in the fourth, driving in a run to break a 1-1 tie. He popped out to first base in the sixth inning. Hill struck out swinging in the eighth inning, leaving him 2-for-4 on the day. He broke a 1-for-22 slide yesterday by hitting a double and drawing a walk. Hill now has a .200 average in 13 games.

** Mitch Keller got some recognition on Thursday afternoon. Jim Callis from MLB Pipeline rated the best tools among players selected for the Fall-Stars game on Saturday night. He named Keller as having the best fastball and the best control, while giving him an honorable mention for the best curveball. The game will be shown live on MLB Network on Saturday at 8 PM and we will have a recap posted here afterwards. Kevin Kramer will also take part in the game.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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