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Bucs’ Minor Leaguer makes most of his at bats

Spring training

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Pittsburgh Pirates got a two-run homer from Yordany De Los Santos during a three-run seventh inning Monday, en route to a 4-1 victory over Tampa Bay in Grapefruit League action.

In limited play as a Minor League callup, De Los Santos has gone 3-for-6 with a double, two home runs and six RBIs.

Mike Clevinger worked three scoreless innings in his second appearance (first start). He has five total scoreless innings for the Pirates. Chris Devanski got the win in relief while Evan Sisk recorded the save.

Jake Mangum went 2-for-3 in the leadoff spot for the 9-2 Pirates. He is 6-for-12 in the spring. Ryan O’Hearn went 1-for-2 and has reached base safely in each of his first five games.

The Pirates will host Team Columbia, getting ready to play in the World Baseball Classic, today at 1:05 p.m. Jose Urquidy will go against Julio Teheran.

Getting it right

NEW YORK — The Athletics had the highest success rate using the robot-umpire system to overturn ball/strike calls during the first 10 days of spring training, winning 69.2% of challenges as teams prepared for its regular-season debut March 25.

San Francisco was second at 66.7%, followed by Cincinnati, Miami and San Diego at 61.9% each, Major League Baseball said Monday.

The World Series champion Dodgers had the lowest rate, winning 21.4% of appeals to the Automated Ball-Strike System. Baltimore was at 25%, the New York Mets at 35.3% and Texas at 38.1%.

MLB’s overall success rate was 51.3%, with an average of 2.3 challenges per game. The New York Yankees averaged the most challenges at 3.8 per game, winning 52.6%. Minnesota was second at 3.6 (winning 58.3%), followed by Boston at 3.2 (55.2%) and Colorado (55.6%) and San Francisco at 3.0.

Baltimore averaged the fewest challenges at 1.2. The Dodgers were at 1.4 and Detroit was at 1.5 (46.7%).

MLB experimented with ABS during spring training last year and teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges (617 of 1,182). MLB began testing in the minor leagues in 2019.

Each team has the ability to challenge two calls per game. A team retains its challenge if successful, similar to the regulations for big league teams with video reviews.

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