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After incessantly pairing Hunter Brown with Yainer Diaz in an all-rookie battery the final two months, the Astros deviated from that trend Friday.
Martín Maldonado as a substitute were given the task of catching Brown’s start in the opener of a three-game sequence in opposition to the Padres. Diaz had stuck Brown’s earlier 8 begins because the All-Star ruin.
“I was trying to match up Yainer with Hunter, but there hasn’t been much success with getting deep into games,” supervisor Dusty Baker mentioned. “I got Maldy in there today to help straighten him (Brown) out. And if anybody can straighten him out, it’s Maldy.”
Brown finished six innings in 4 of his first 5 begins after the All-Star ruin however had no longer surpassed 5 innings in his final 3 begins coming into Friday. He’d labored fewer than 5 innings two times. Brown is also incorporating a new delivery that he presented in his Aug. 26 day trip in Detroit. He entered Friday with a 4.53 ERA.
Diaz was once in Friday’s lineup at designated hitter in opposition to Padres lefthander Blake Snell. Michael Brantley was once no longer in the lineup for a 3rd time in 4 video games, however Baker mentioned that Brantley, who returned in past due August from a 14-month absence because of shoulder surgical treatment, is “doing great.”
Peña nominated
Shortstop Jeremy Peña is the Astros’ nominee for this 12 months’s annual Roberto Clemente Award, which acknowledges an MLB participant for neighborhood involvement, persona and contributions off and on the sector.
Peña and the Astros Foundation this 12 months started an initiative known as “Peña’s Pals” in which the shortstop hosts scholars from space faculties at Friday house video games. It is Peña’s first Clemente Award nomination.
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