On July 21, 1991, he was traded by the Rangers with a player to be named later (minor league pitcher Travis Buckley, who was sent on September 1, 1991) and Joey Eischen to the Expos for Oil Can Boyd.

Hurst made his major league debut on June 9, 1992, for the Montreal Expos at the age of 25.

He pitched in the Expos organization until 1993, when he was selected off waivers by the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 2.

For example, he went 4–3 with a 1.88 ERA and 59 strikeouts in 57 1/3 innings in his very first professional season, spent with the GCL Rangers.

The following year, he went 2–0 with a 1.64 ERA in 13 games (four starts), as he struck out 35 batters in 33 innings for three teams.

He was with the Savannah Sand Gnats in 2007 and 2008, from 2009 to 2015 he coached for the Kingsport Mets, and in 2016 he began coaching for the Columbia Fireflies, the Mets Single A South Atlantic League affiliate in Columbia, South Carolina.