{"id":592164,"date":"2026-04-07T22:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/592164\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:45:08","slug":"astros-hunter-brown-diagnosed-with-grade-2-shoulder-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/592164\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros&#8217; Hunter Brown diagnosed with Grade 2 shoulder strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"00a3015f-09ec-1b03-52af-656f5e0a18d5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-astros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Astros<\/a> ace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4717803\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Brown<\/a> has been diagnosed with a Grade 2 right shoulder strain and will be kept from throwing &#8220;for a few weeks,&#8221; the team said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes two days after Brown was placed on the 15-day injured list.<\/p>\n<p>The right-hander reported shoulder discomfort during a routine throwing session Friday, three days after he allowed one hit over six innings in a 9-2 victory over the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c6df06f6-785d-3900-4935-5fd13742e2ee\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, 27, has won 11 or more games in three consecutive seasons.<\/p>\n<p>He has an 0.84 ERA over his first two starts this season, with 17 strikeouts in 10\u2154 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Astros ace Hunter Brown has been diagnosed with a Grade 2 right shoulder strain and will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-592164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}