PITTSBURGH (AP) — Triple-A Louisville manager Pat Kelly occasionally likes to have a little fun when he gets to tell one of his players they’re heading to the majors.
And Kelly tried his best on short notice on Friday night when he approached his son Casey on the field following a postgame fireworks display and asked him what he was doing on Saturday.
The younger Kelly — a pitcher and former first-round pick who spent six years in the Korean Baseball Organization before the Cincinnati Reds signed him to a minor league deal this month — told his father: “I’m starting for you tomorrow.”…