This season, 1,842 plate appearing in this season seemed an unexpected candidate to find a house with Jeremy Pena Houston Batting Order, Astro Shortstop Jeremy Pena Houston Batting Order, with only 90 career walks.
Nevertheless, in search of a spark for his gap crime with Astros, Penna has given since being put in the leadoff role. He will again see to work as a spark on Friday when Houston launched a three-game interlaying series against Cincinnati Reds.
Penna has posted a .349/.378/.558 slash line in 10 games since going to the leadoff position. He went to 2-for-5 with a double and three-run domestic run in Astro’s 9–1 road win over Millvoky Braves on Wednesday, which was his fifth multi-hit game after the lineup change on 27 April.
“You are making adjustments quickly, and I think he is doing so,” Astro Manager Joe Espada said. “And I think it’s very important. He has matured to understand what the pitches are trying to do (important), and he is understanding himself and how his swing is working.
“He comes into the game and he sees the pitches, and when he knows they are attacking him with fastball, I think he is right on them. We are not asking him to sit there and take the pitches and walk. We want him to be more patient and wait for his pitches to be a hit, and he is doing so.”
The right-handed Hunter Brown (5–1, 1.67 ERA) is a setter for Houston on Friday. He recorded his fifth consecutive victory decision on Saturday, despite allowing Season-high three-hit runs on four hits with nine strikes in six innings in a win of 8–3 over Chicago White Sox.
Brown has started a quality in all seven shows this season, and he was 3–0 with more than 0.36 ERAs before facing white sox.
The 26 -year -old Detroit native has faced Reds once the first time, four hits and a sept 5, 2024, allowing a walk with six strikes, thrown six shutouts. He did not make factor in Astro’s decision to lose 1-0.
Right-arm Nick Martinez (1-3, 4.19 ERA) has an initial assignment for Reds. He faced Washington’s 4–1 defeat on Sunday after losing 4–1 to Cincinnati, despite the second consecutive quality start. He allowed one run on four hits with six strikes and no foot in six innings.
Reds is 1-6 out of seven of its seven in this season, with Martinez on 28 April against St. Louis Cardinals.
The 1488 ERA is 4–4 with a 1488 ERA on 14 career performance (nine start) against Martinez Astro. In his latest presence against Houston, he allowed four runs (one earned) on six hits and three walks with seven strikes in 5 2/3 innings in 5 2/3 innings in a domestic run of 12-5 on September 4, 2024.
Reds announced on Thursday that they would put Ekka Right-Hand Hunter Green with a grade 1 right groin strain in the 15-day injured list. He retained the injury from the fourth innings on the last night, rotating three scoreless frames in Reds’s 4–3 win over Atlanta Braves.
Green was not determined to pitch during the series in Houston, but the club considered its MRI results relatively positive.
“It’s not terrible,” Cincinnati’s manager Terry Frankona said before his club’s 5-4, 11-inning defeat in Atlanta on Thursday. “But this is going to be an IL placement because we need to remember him a beginning or two.”
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