Houston Astros fans held their collective breath as Lance McCullers exited his start early with elbow discomfort. McCullers departure opened the door for recently called up Joe Musgrove.
Musgrove entered the game in the fifth inning with two outs. He had to warm up for his first major league outing without having thrown a warm-up pitch and Musgrove had to warm on the mound on the diamond instead of the bullpen because of the injury -- talk about going straight into the fire.
Musgrove wasn't phased, he struck out Edwin Encarnacion to end the inning.
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