{"id":42167,"date":"2026-04-05T19:44:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=42167"},"modified":"2026-04-05T19:44:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:44:03","slug":"astros-ace-hunter-brown-to-15-day-il-with-shoulder-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=42167","title":{"rendered":"Astros ace Hunter Brown to 15-day IL with shoulder strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"byline-wrap\">\n<ul class=\"authors byline-authors\">\n<li class=\"single-author mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Buster Olney<span class=\"timestamp \">Apr 5, 2026, 01:27 PM ET<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-overlay\"><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senior writer ESPN Magazine\/ESPN.com\n<\/li>\n<li>Analyst\/reporter ESPN television\n<\/li>\n<li>Author of &#8220;The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Multiple Authors<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"00a3015f-09ec-1b03-52af-656f5e0a18d5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-astros\">Houston Astros<\/a> placed ace <a data-player-guid=\"cc9ee364-ac21-3540-ab45-3fee5fe359d1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4717803\/hunter-brown\">Hunter Brown<\/a> on the 15-day injured list Sunday with a strain in his pitching shoulder, as one of baseball&#8217;s best starting pitchers went down with an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Brown last pitched Tuesday, when he had eight strikeouts over six innings in Houston&#8217;s victory over the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c6df06f6-785d-3900-4935-5fd13742e2ee\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-red-sox\">Boston Red Sox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros did not disclose whether Brown would be sidelined longer than the minimum 15-day IL stint, which is retroactive to Thursday. Right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4298336\/christian-roa\">Christian Roa<\/a> was recalled from Triple-A Sugarland in a corresponding roster move.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48340812\/mlb-2026-power-rankings-week-1-dodgers-yankees-mariners-blue-jays-mets\" class=\"img-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2026\/0331\/mlb_power1_cr_1x1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>After some initial struggles early in his career, Brown broke through during the 2024 season. Last season, the right-hander generated a 2.43 ERA in 31 starts, leading the Astros&#8217; staff with 6.1 WAR and finishing third in the American League Cy Young Award voting.<\/p>\n<p>With <a data-player-guid=\"01b35349-cb23-ea37-392e-bfac05c9c4eb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36581\/framber-valdez\">Framber Valdez<\/a>&#8216;s departure as a free agent, Brown came into the season as the clear ace for Houston, which missed the playoffs last season for the first time since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, 27, has a 0.84 ERA over his first two starts this season, with 17 strikeouts in 10\u2154 innings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48404500\/astros-ace-hunter-brown-15-day-il-shoulder-strain\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buster OlneyApr 5, 2026, 01:27 PM ET Close Senior writer ESPN Magazine\/ESPN.com Analyst\/reporter ESPN television Author of &#8220;The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty&#8221; Multiple Authors&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}