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Pirates Notes: The Jonah Davis and Jung Ho Kang Show

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The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Baltimore Orioles by a 7-5 score in Bradenton on Thursday afternoon. The day started off on a bit of a low note, with Starling Marte being scratched from the lineup due to back tightness. He is listed as day-to-day and the move was called more precautionary than anything. The day ended much better with the help of the man who replaced Marte in the lineup.

The Pirates drafted outfielder Jonah Davis in the 15th round last year and he put up huge numbers at Bristol, with a 1.010 OPS in 51 games. It was a great pro debut, but Bristol has another six steps before you’re in the majors. That didn’t matter to Davis, who took Marte’s place and hit solo homers in the first and sixth innings.

Here are both homers

The Pirates also got a solo homer from Francisco Cervelli, his third of the spring.

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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