Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) – The Houston Astros placed pitcher Collin McHugh on the 15-day disabled list prior to Saturday’s game against the Boston Red Sox due to a torn fingernail on his throwing hand.<\/p>\n
McHugh sustained the injury in Sunday’s outing against the Angels, during which he was forced to exit after four innings. The right-hander had originally been slated to pitch in Saturday’s matchup with the Red Sox.<\/p>\n
Brett Oberholtzer was recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City to take McHugh’s place on Saturday.<\/p>\n
McHugh has been a pleasant surprise for Houston this season, compiling a 3.28 earned run average along with a 4-8 record in 14 starts since being promoted from Oklahoma City in late April.<\/p>\n
Oberholtzer opened the season in the Astros’ rotation but was sent to the minors at the end of May. The lefty has started a pair of games for Houston since the demotion, including one last week in Anaheim in which he allowed five runs in 6 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old entered Saturday’s action with a 2-7 record and a 4.66 ERA in 11 overall major league starts this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) – The Houston Astros placed pitcher Collin McHugh on the 15-day disabled list prior to Saturday’s game against the Boston Red Sox due to a torn fingernail on his throwing hand. McHugh sustained the injury in Sunday’s outing against the Angels, during which he was forced to exit after four innings. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,43,42],"class_list":["post-20793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-astros","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}