{"id":70231,"date":"2024-04-09T12:53:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T16:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=70231"},"modified":"2024-04-09T12:53:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T16:53:53","slug":"young-cub-first-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/09\/young-cub-first-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Cub To Make First Career Start Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was announced Monday night that young right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=brownbe02,brown-015ben&amp;search=Ben+Brown&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.baseball-reference.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-09_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Brown<\/a> will be making his first career start tonight. The 24-year-old will be opposed in San Diego by all-star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/musgrjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.baseball-reference.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-09_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Musgrove<\/a> in game two of a three-game series. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/12\/22\/cubs-prospects-watch-2024\/\" target=\"_self\">Brown<\/a> has already made two appearances at the Major League level, but this will be his first opportunity to start a ball game in his young career. The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">East Setauket, NY <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">native was acquired by the Cubs back in 2022, being the return in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/roberda08.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.baseball-reference.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-09_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Robertson<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/08\/03\/phillies-snag-david-robertson\/\" target=\"_self\">trade with the Phillies<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ben Brown will start tomorrow for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cubs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Cubs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Taylor McGregor (@Taylor_McGregor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Taylor_McGregor\/status\/1777571749405905113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Young Cub to Make First Career Start Tuesday<\/h2>\n<h3><b>What Brown Has Shown So Far\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the top pitching prospects in the Cubs organization made his Major League debut on March 30. Brown was called up after the team determined that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/steelju01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.baseball-reference.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-09_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justin Steele<\/a> needed to be <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/02\/cubs-justin-steele-absence-april\/\" target=\"_self\">placed on the IL with a hamstring injury<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately for Brown, he got roughed up by a quite potent Ranger offense in his first-ever outing in the show. Brown allowed six runs on five hits in just an inning and two-thirds tossed. The righty walked two and punched out one in Arlington in just the second game of the 2024 season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">First career strikeout for Ben Brown! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TTcqqWl7do\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/TTcqqWl7do<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marquee Sports Network (@WatchMarquee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WatchMarquee\/status\/1774241126775394520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 31, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the Cubs made the trek back home to Chicago, it gave Brown another shot to show off his stuff. He was the first man out of the bullpen for manager Craig Counsell after Luke Little was used as an opener in the series finale on April 3 against Colorado. Brown got through four innings against the Rockies in his Wrigley Field debut. The former Philly farmhand allowed just one run on three hits while punching out five batters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ben Brown was outstanding tonight \ud83d\ude2e\u200d\ud83d\udca8<\/p>\n<p>4 IP | 3 H | 1 ER | 1 BB | 5 K<\/p>\n<p>(\ud83d\udcf8: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WatchMarquee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@WatchMarquee<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dLMKIFS0tT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/dLMKIFS0tT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cubs Zone (@CubsZone) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CubsZone\/status\/1775697802510598294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><b>Help Needed<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the Cubs blew an 8-0 lead against the Padres in the series opener Monday night; this pitching staff needs a major pick-me-up. While Brown still gets his feet wet, the Cubs bullpen is off to a tough start. This means he needs to step up in a big way on Tuesday. In his brief outings so far, Brown has showcased that he\u2019s stuff that can play at the Major League level. He will be put to the test Tuesday against an offense coming into the ball game with plenty of momentum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: David Banks-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced Monday night that young right-hander Ben Brown will be making his first career start tonight. The 24-year-old will be opposed in San Diego by all-star Joe Musgrove in game two of a three-game series. Brown has already made two appearances at the Major League level, but this will be his first opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5007,"featured_media":70237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[5881],"class_list":["post-70231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cubs","tag-ben-brown"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}