BREAKING: Atlanta calls up LHP Jared Shuster for tonight's start
The Atlanta Braves have decided against going with their third bullpen game of the last week and are instead calling up left-handed pitcher Jared Shuster for tonight's start in Texas, the team announced on twitter this morning.
Shuster, 24, is 0-1 on the season with a 8.31 ERA across his two starts. He hasn't made it out of the 5th inning in either, going 4.2 against Washington with six hits and four runs on Opening Weekend in DC before getting smacked by San Diego at home for six hits and four runs in four innings the next Friday. He's been working out of the rotation in AAA Gwinnett ever since, going 2-0 with a 3.28 ERA in his five starts, walking 14 and striking out 23.
He'll look to improve on those performances tonight in Arlington, against a Texas Rangers team that just got shut out by Charlie Morton and Danny Young in Atlanta's 12-0 series opening victory.
Young pitched the final 2.1 innings of the game, giving up three hits but no runs, and striking out two. He threw 39 pitches, and given his likely lack of availability for the next two days of the series, was the corresponding move for Shuster's promotion.
Also, the Braves announced that lefty reliever Lucas Luetge is going on a rehab assignment, reporting to AA Mississippi. That Braves team is on the road this week, beginning a series tonight in Montgomery, only a four hour drive (or 60 minute flight) from Atlanta. Luetge, 36, is 1-0 on the season with a 8.10 ERA in his five appearances for Atlanta this season, striking out six in his 6.2 innings of work, before going on the IL on April 14th with left bicep inflammation. He was acquired by Atlanta in a December trade with the Yankees for SS Caleb Durbin and RHP Indigo Diaz.
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