As the St. Louis Cardinals are seeing this week, the Pittsburgh Pirates have plenty of excellent young pitching beyond Paul Skenes.

The Cardinals will get another glimpse of it Thursday afternoon in the finale of a four-game home series.

St. Louis won 7-6 on Monday before the Pirates won 8-3 behind Mitch Keller on Tuesday and 2-1 on Wednesday with Carmen Mlodzinski and top pitching prospect Bubba Chandler combining to pitch seven overpowering innings.

After Mlodzinski tossed three innings of one-run ball, Chandler yielded just one hit in four shutout innings and emerged with his first major league win.

Pittsburgh, which has won six of its last seven games, will start rookie Braxton Ashcraft (4-3, 2.70 ERA) to conclude the series. The right-hander allowed a total of one run on four hits

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