Last year he lost his slider. He entered in the eighth inning and retired two of his three batters faced as he recorded his first career hold...Had two outings with HOU in which he allowed three earned runs (8/12 vs. MIN and 9/28 at NYM) over a combined 3.1 innings. Pitched at a 2.08 ERA in his first four starts with GWN. View Mike Foltynewicz Stats on ... Houston Astros in the first round (19th overall) of the 2010 First-Year Player Draft out of Minooka (Ill.) Community High School. Allowed 17 home runs on the season, for a 1.77 HR/9.0 innings pitched ratio, which ranked second highest in the Majors among pitchers with at least 75.0 innings. ..Became the first Braves starter to not allow a run in a start at SunTrust Park, 6/7 vs. PHI …Tossed 7.0 scoreless innings and allowed four hits and two walks with four strikeouts…His 7.0 shutout innings ran his scoreless streak to a career best-tying 14.0 consecutive innings after he went 7.0 innings on 6/2 at CIN…Also went 14.0 scoreless innings, 7/10 and 7/16, 2016...Collected two double-digit strikeout games, including fanning a career-best 11 on 8/5 vs. MIA…Also struck out 10 on 6/2 at CIN...Allowed a career-most eight runs, all earned, and 11 hits on 6/12 at WSH…Failed to record a strikeout, marking just his second career start he did not fan a batter (also, 8/3/15 vs. SF)…Matched the eight runs on 8/16 at COL in a 17-2 loss. ..Carried a no-hitter into the ninth inning on 6/30 at OAK, winning 3-1...Allowed a full-count home run to Matt Olson leading off the ninth inning before exiting...The performance marked the longest no-hit bid by a Braves pitcher since Shelby Miller went 8.2 on 5/17/15 at MIA...Foltynewicz finished the night allowing the one hit, the one run and four walks while striking out eight over a career high-tying 8.0 innings...Won a career-high six consecutive decisions, 6/7-7/25...Pitched to a 3.74 ERA (22 ER/53.0 IP) during the run, which spanned nine starts...The Braves won each of Foltynewicz's starts during that streak, the longest such run by the club for a single pitcher since the team won 23 consecutive starts by Kris Medlen from 2010-2012 to set an MLB record...Lost his last seven starts of the season, compiling a 7.91 ERA (29 ER/33.0 IP) over the skid...His skid is one short of the franchise record, set by Preston Hanna from 1976-1978 and matched by Shelby Miller in 2015...Entered this stretch with a 3.94 season ERA (53 ER/121.0 IP)...Began the season 0-4 with a 4.55 ERA (15 ER/29.2 IP) over a six game, five start span…Then went 10-2 with a 3.74 ERA (38 ER/91.1 IP) over a 16-start span, 5/12-8/5…His 10 wins over this stretch tied for the most in the majors with five others (MIL's Zach Davies, LAD's Clayton Kershaw, BOS' Chris Sale, LAD's Alex Wood and NYM's Jacob deGrom). ... Foltynewicz went 7-0 during the stretch, which was the longest winning streak of his career...He had previously won six straight from June 7 to July 25, 2017. 65 prospect in all of baseball...was in minor league camp but did join the Astros for two Major League games in Spring Training...did not allow a run in 5.0 innings of work, while allowing just one hit and fanning eight...this included a 4.0-inning, seven-strikeout performance on March 30 vs. CHC in an exhibition game at Minute Maid Park...in the regular season, advanced to Class A Advanced Lancaster, where he went 1-0 with a 3.81 ERA (11ER/26IP) in seven games (five starts)...promoted to Double A Corpus Christi on May 2 and finished his season with the Hooks...went 5-3 with three saves and a 2.87 ERA (33ER/103.1IP) in 23 games (16 starts) at the Double A level...allowed just a .207 opponent's batting average at Corpus...earned Midseason and Postseason All-Star honors in the Texas League...was also picked by the Texas League managers and coaches as the 'Best Pitching Prospect' with the 'Best Fastball' and 'Best Breaking Pitch' in Baseball America's Best Tools Survey...combined to go 6-3 with three saves and a 3.06 ERA (44ER/129.1IP) in 30 games (21 starts).Entered the season as the Astros No.