Rays, Astros Set Game 5 Starters

The Race and the Astros set their start for ALCS ‘Game 5 on Thursday. Tampa Bay gives a start to the right arm relief John Curtis Must be a bullpen game, while Houston becomes a right-handed player Louis Garcia With their season. Garcia has yet to make the playoffs and picked up just 12 1/3 of the regular season frames – his first career work above the Class-A advanced level.

Curtis, 27, proved to be the latest gem to be discovered by Race because he gave up 25 innings of 1.80 ira ball at a regular rate of 25 to 3k / pp. The former doubles opportunity was rudely welcomed in his playoff debut earlier this month, with the Yankees knocking him out for five in two-thirds of an innings, but he came out without three points. Curtis has not played more than 2 2/3 innings this season and has not thrown 43 pitches in a tour, so it will be in all hands for rays today.

Garcia, 23, has not played in a game since Sept. 27 and was not asked to play more than two innings at any time after five inning attempts on Sept. 9. The Astros will not listen to the bulk of the innings from Rookie as manager today Dusty Baker He told reporters that Garcia could go once in a row of powerful rays (Twitter link Via Brian McDocard of MLB.com). It was completely different from last year’s Astros Club, which rode the trio Justin Verlander, Gerrit Cole And Zach Granke For Game 7 of the World Series, but this is a testament to the club’s young pitch, despite the senior pitchers having several major injuries that their hands have been able to carry them so far.

In other series, Baker revealed that X-rays were taken later Michael Brandley A ball on his leg was negative. In today’s Elimination game he defeated Astros ’D.H.