HOUSTON — Heralded outfield prospect Kyle Tucker made his big-league debut Saturday for the Astros
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With Tucker, who finished 1-for-4 with a bases-loaded walk and three strikeouts in the Astros’ 12-6 win, in the fold, outfielder Tony Kemp will see a
reduction in his playing time despite providing a spark for the Astros (60-31)
since his mid-May recall. Kemp has a slash line of .295/.385/.410 over 40
games.
Outfielder Jake Marisnick
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“It was hard for Jake, and it should be,” Astros manager A.J. Hinch said. “He’s had a roller-coaster season going up and down. The first go-round he was
really needing to go correct some things. The second go-around he was doing a
lot better and things were out of his control a little bit as to him going down
to Triple-A. There are still some offensive adjustments we want him to make.
“(Kemp) came up and won the right to stay in the big leagues. When a transaction happens
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has contributed to this team, and it hasn’t always been fair to him the last
couple of years.”
Astros left-hander Dallas Keuchel (5-8, 4.12 ERA) will start the series finale against the White Sox. He has posted three quality starts in his last
four outings, going 2-0 with a 2.96 ERA and 21 strikeouts across 24 1/3 innings
during that stretch.
Keuchel is 3-4 with a 3.81 ERA over eight career starts against the White Sox including a 10-1 win on April 21 when he worked six innings and allowed one run
on four hits and two walks with six strikeouts at Guaranteed Rate Field.
Right-hander Lucas Giolito (5-7
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five runs or more four times.
Giolito will make his third career start against the Astros, against whom he is 0-2 with an 11.42 ERA. He was charged with nine runs on five hits and seven
walks opposite Keuchel on April 21 and suffered the loss in his previous
appearance at Minute Maid Park on Sept. 19, 2017
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White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson was back in the starting lineup Saturday and finished 0-for-4 with two strikeouts after sitting out the previous game to
manage the soreness in his left forearm. Anderson was hit by a pitch in
Thursday’s series opener.
Anderson has become a fixture in the eight-hole when Chicago faces a right-handed starter, a move designed to help amplify the depth of the White Sox
lineup and provide additional opportunities atop the batting order for fellow
infielders Yoan Moncada and Yolmer Sanchez.
“If you look at the lineup it just lengthens out (and) allows us to put him and keep him there,” White Sox manager Rick Renteria said of Anderson. “As long
as he stays comfortable there he helps us there quite a bit. Picks up the back
end of the lineup and I think we’ve gotten some benefits out of it.”
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