McCutchen’s double lifts Pirates to 4-3 win

Pittsburgh Pirates manager Derek Shelton has said repeatedly, as recently as Tuesday, that the club’s experiment featuring Carmen Mlodzinski as a starting pitcher will continue.

Mlodzinski had starting experience collegiately at South Carolina as well as in the minor leagues but was converted to a reliever upon reaching Double-A.

However, last season, Mlodzinski made a handful of abbreviated spot starts and to begin 2025, with Jared Jones sidelined because of injury, the 26-year-old has plugged ...