Day 15 of Pirates spring training: news and notes

• The Pirates have a split squad on Monday. Both games will have a 1:05 pm start.
• At McKechnie Field in Bradenton, Paul Maholm will start for the Bucs against the Baltimore Orioles, pitching two innings. He will be followed by Jeff Karstens who will also pitch two innings of work.

Tyler Yates, Jeff Locke, Mike Crotta, Justin Wilson and Cesar Valdez will all pitch one inning a piece

• At Charlotte Sports Park, Bryan Morris will start for the Bucs against the Rays, followed by Fernando Nieve. They will both pitch two innings of work.

Sean Gallaher, Aaron Thompson, Kyle McPherson will pitch one inning.

Jeff Neiman will start for the Rays.

• This will be the first meeting of the Pirates and former Skipper John Russell on Monday since he was fired over the offseason. Russell was hired by the O’s as a third base coach.

Russell finished his tenure with a 186-299 record.

• Lefty Scott Olsen is scheduled to throw his third side session on Monday. Olsen is recovering from a left hamstring strain.
• Joe Beimel said he woke up experiencing pain in a muscle near the elbow, but it isn’t anything serious.

“It’s not too big of a deal,” Beimel said. “When I was playing catch, I over-extended on one (throw) and it got a little sore. I was a little worried because it’s something I never felt before. They’ve done all the tests and there’s nothing (wrong) with the ligament. It’s one of those things where I can move it, like, 10 times and on the 11th it will hurt. Since (Sunday), it’s become less and less (painful), to the point now that I don’t really feel it.”

　

Lineups:

Orioles: J.J. Hardy SS

Felix Pie RF

Mark Reynolds 3B

Vladimir Guerrero DH

Adam Jones CF

Nolan Reimold LF

Brandon Snyder 1B

Craig Tatum C

Cesar Izturis 2B

RHP Brad Bergesen

Pirates:

Jose Tabata LF

Josh Rodriguez SS

Andrew McCutchen CF

Pedro Alvarez 3B

Lyle Overbay 1B

Garrett Jones 1B

Ryan Doumit DH

Chase d’Arnaud 2B

Jason Jaramillo C

LHP Paul Maholm