PITTSBURGH -- Bubba Chandler didn't disappoint in his major league debut for the Pittsburgh Pirates

The hard-throwing 22-year-old right-hander, considered the top pitching prospect in baseball, threw four scoreless innings in relief to get the save in a 9-0 win over the Colorado Rockies on Friday night.

Chandler became just the fourth pitcher to record a four-inning save in his major league debut since the save became an official statistic in 1969.

Chandler, officially called up from Triple-A Indianapolis earlier in the day, entered in the top of the sixth against Colorado after five innings of one-hit ball by Pirates starter Braxton Ashcraft .

Chandler's first pitch in the majors was a 99 mph fastball that Orlando Arcia fouled off. Arcia took a 97 mph heater for a ball, then

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