Musgrove allowed three hits and one walk while striking out four over four scoreless innings in Friday's exhibition against the Cubs, Hunter Atkins of the Houston Chronicle reports.
Musgrove finished out the spring on a high note against a Cubs lineup filled with its best players. He retired the first eight batters faced before yielding back-to-back hits in the third, but he delivered a changeup to strike out Kris Bryant to avoid damage. He also got out of a two-out, two-on jam in the fourth. While the right-hander never pitched more than five innings in any of his seven spring starts, Musgrove feels he has more in the tank and will be prepared to go deep when he makes his first regular-season start Thursday, April 6, against the Mariners.