Hunter Brown

BIOGRAPHY

Hunter Brown was born August 29, 1998, in Detroit, Michigan. He is a pitcher in the MLB.

The Astros promoted Brown from Sugar Land to the major league roster for the first time on September 1, 2022. On September 5, he started and won a sensational major league debut, hurling the first six innings of a 1–0 shutout of the Texas Rangers. He allowed three hits, one walk and struck out five to outduel Rangers ace Martín Pérez. Brown retired the first eight batters faced, including striking out the first two of the game, Marcus Semien and Corey Seager, for his first two career strikeouts. The win evened the Astros' all-time franchise win-loss record at 4,812–4,812, for the first time since in May 14, 2006. In his second start of the season, Brown made his road debut as a homecoming in Detroit with friends and family in attendance, leading a 6–3 defeat of the Tigers. He allowed two runs on five hits over six innings. On September 19, Brown made his relief debut, hurling three innings in a 4–0 shutout of the Tampa Bay Rays to clinch a fifth American League West division title for the Astros over the previous six seasons. On October 4, Brown relieved Verlander in an ongoing no-hitter versus the Philadelphia Phillies and delivered 2+1⁄3 hitless innings that Houston pitching maintained until the ninth inning.

In 2022, Brown was 2–0 with an 0.89 ERA in 20+1⁄3 innings with 22 strikeouts, in seven games (two starts).

Brown made his postseason debut on October 11, 2022, in Game 1 of the American League Division Series. He pitched in relief in the eighth inning, surrendering just one hit in an 8–7 Astros' walk-off win over the Seattle Mariners. Brown also threw two scoreless innings in the 12th and 13th of the Astros' 18-inning victory over the Mariners in Game 3. Brown's last appearance of the postseason came in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series against the New York Yankees, throwing 2⁄3 of an inning to help close out a 5–0 win. The Astros advanced to the World Series and defeated the Phillies in six games to give him his first career World Series title.