Astros righthander Hunter Brown again struggled with his control during Monday's outing...
Astros righthander Hunter Brown again struggled with his control during Monday's outing against the Cardinals.JUPITER, Fla. — A strike away from salvaging his second Grapefruit League start, Hunter Brown spun a slider. The baseball did not break and Moises Gómez watched it fall in for ball four. He tossed his bat and walked toward first base.
Brown walked all three batters he faced in the second inning. Reliever Ty Buttrey allowed all of them to score, but runs are really of little importance in spring training. More alarming is Brown’s continued inability to throw strikes, a fact that left him visibly frustrated after Monday’s outing. Brown has walked five batters in his first two Grapefruit League starts. He’s thrown just 38 of his 73 pitches for strikes: a 52 percent clip. One opposing scout that watched his start on Monday attributed the decline to “mechanical consistency.” Lance McCullers Jr.’s muscle strain should put Brown in the major league rotation, but he must harness better command if he plans to stick.
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