Hudson threw two innings of relief Friday in a loss to the Dodgers, allowing a run on a solo homer, a walk, and striking out four. This was a much better performance for Hudson with the strikeouts being an encouraging sign, but he has still given up runs in four straight appearances. That said, Hudson won't hold much value working in middle relief as he has in his past two outings. The best case scenario might be that it leads to stretching him out to try starting again, if he's not going to be able to work in high leverage relief situations.