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Hello and welcome to the first pitch podcast, the first one of June.

That's right.

We are up to June in the baseball season.

I appreciate you joining me.

My name is Trevor Hooth.

And, well, interesting bout of games.

A lot of offense, a lot of home runs.

I feel like there were just to take a random

guess, 250 home runs hit in the games yesterday. We'll get to some of those. But first,

let's check out what's happening in the news. The Astros are going to promote Jacob Melton.

He was hitting 254 in AAA with a pair of home runs,

three steals, and a 15.5% walk rate. There are more moves to come with that news as he needs

to be added to the 40-man roster and the active roster. But Jacob Melton, one of their top

prospects, is going to be making his MLB debut, or I guess at least joining the team.

So when he gets in a game,

it'll be his MLB debut.

Not directly correlated that I can tell,

but Yorta Alvarez has had a setback in his recovery.

He's dealing with a very small,

described as very small hand fracture.

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