{"id":580631,"date":"2026-04-12T23:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/580631\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T23:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:56:14","slug":"painter-overcomes-migraine-pitches-5-innings-for-phillies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/580631\/","title":{"rendered":"Painter overcomes migraine, pitches 5 innings for Phillies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA &#8212; <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-phillies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phillies<\/a> rookie right-hander <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4872683\/andrew-painter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andrew Painter<\/a>, who was scratched from his scheduled start Sunday because of a migraine, instead threw five innings of relief after spending the morning throwing up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Righty <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41103\/zach-pop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zach Pop<\/a> got the emergency start instead of Painter, giving up three hits and one run in the first two innings of a <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/game\/_\/gameId\/401814907\/diamondbacks-phillies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">4-3 loss<\/a> to the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/ari\/arizona-diamondbacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Painter, 23, entered to begin the third for his third big league appearance. He retired the first nine batters before <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32985\/ildemaro-vargas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ildemaro Vargas<\/a> led off the sixth with a double and scored on <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/31261\/nolan-arenado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nolan Arenado<\/a>&#8216;s sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Painter left after the seventh, allowing one run on three hits with seven strikeouts and one walk. He lowered his ERA from 4.82 to 3.77.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He said after the game that he felt pressure in his head and was throwing up all morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Painter was selected No. 13 overall by the Phillies in the 2021 amateur draft. He hurt his pitching elbow during spring training in 2023 and had Tommy John surgery later that year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">He won his big league debut April 1, allowing one run and five hits over 5 innings against Washington with eight strikeouts and one walk.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8212; Phillies rookie right-hander Andrew Painter, who was scratched from his scheduled start Sunday because of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[254593,2317,352,363,3,254592,480,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-580631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-254593","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-espn","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-painter-andrew","14":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}