Brown among best on an iffy-slate Thursday

Today's Overview/Schedule/Weather: Its a short-slate, travel-day Thursday in Major League Baseball. Nine games are on the docket, and eight of those will be daytime affairs. Games in Cleveland (TOR@CLE), Minneapolis (SEA@MIN), and St. Louis (CHC@STL) may end up being fortunate to be counted among the nine -- rain is in the forecast before and across the game hours of those tilts. RHP Hunter Brown is the lead edge of a dull sword when it comes to the pitching talent due to start the nine games. Question marks abound.

 

Notable Starts:

Hunter Brown has been rather inefficient with his pitches in two of his last three outings. But those two starts were on the road. Brown is at home against PHI on Thursday. He owns a 1.19 ERA, 11.9 K/9 at...

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