Musgrove (3-4) allowed seven runs on eight hits and three walks while striking out four over three-plus innings in Sunday's 8-6 loss to the Indians.
This was the shortest of Musgrove's 19 career major-league starts. The 24-year-old failed to reach six innings for the sixth time in nine starts and has a rotation-worst 5.63 ERA in 2017. ERAs will get that high when a pitcher gives up hits in bunches like Musgrove, who ranks 85th among qualified starters with 10.41 H/9. He told Jake Kaplan of the Houston Chronicle that he was just a two-pitch pitcher Sunday, lacking a feel for his slider and changeup. He's next scheduled to start Friday at home against Baltimore.