Hunter Brown recorded his 14th quality start while matching his season-high in wins to lead the Houston Astros to a 6-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday.

Brown (11-7) went seven innings for just the second time this season, allowing one run on four hits and two walks with six strikeouts. After getting into trouble with two outs in the first inning that cost him a run, Brown didn’t let the White Sox do anything from there on out.

Chicago managed three consecutive baserunners with two outs in the first inning, starting with a walk to Andrew Benintendi and consecutive singles by Andrew Vaughn and Gavin Sheets for a 1-0 lead. Brown ended the inning with a strikeout to Lenyn Sosa.

Brown faced only one batter over the minimum after the first inning. He shut down the White Sox in succession in the second, fifth and seventh innings, benefited from an inning-ending double play on a line drive to shortstop Jeremy Pena in the fourth inning and faced three batters in the sixth inning when Luis Robert Jr. hit a leadoff single but was thrown out trying to steal second base.

Brown threw 69 of his 102 pitches for strikes and relied on a five-pitch mix that featured an even distribution of four-seam fastballs (25 pitches), sinkers (24) and cutters (23). He recorded nine swings and misses.

The Astros erased a one-run deficit with three runs in the bottom of the third inning. Third baseman Shay Whitcomb, making his major league debut, went 2-for-3, including a one-out double, before scoring on Jose Altuve’s two-run single to center to give the team a 2-1 lead.

Altuve then advanced to second base on a wild pitch from White Sox right-hander Chris Flexen (2-12) before taking third on the next pitch. Yordan Alvarez scored when he hit an RBI single into shallow left field.

Houston, winning for the ninth time in 10 games, scored another run against Flexen in the fourth inning when Mauricio Dubon hit a sacrifice fly to left field, scoring Victor Caratini.

Flexen allowed four runs on seven hits, one walk and one strikeout in four innings and fell to 0-9 in his final 18 starts, with the White Sox losing each game.