Glasnow closes season with encouraging start

ST. LOUIS — The pitcher’s mound stands 10 inches higher than home plate, and Tyler Glasnow towers another 6 feet and 8 inches above that. So sometimes he needs to be reminded: With his big frame and long limbs, he’s already tall enough.

So Glasnow, looking to cap a frustrating season with a positive finish, focused on shortening up his delivery Friday night. The end result was perhaps Glasnow’s most encouraging appearance in the Major Leagues, as he held the Cards to one run on one hit — Jedd Gyorko’s home run — over five mostly efficient innings in the Pirates’ 7-0 loss at Busch Stadium.

“It was good to end on a better note and take it into the offseason,” Glasnow said. “It’s only one outing, but looking back, the bad habits I got into before and slowly working out of them toward the end of the season, I think each outing was a little better. It was good to get closer to back on track.”

Glasnow, the Bucs’ top prospect and MLBPipeline.com’s Pitcher of the Year, went 8-3 with a 1.87 ERA and 133 strikeouts in 110 2/3 Triple-A innings this season. He walked five batters per nine innings, but …

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