{"id":63913,"date":"2025-08-13T01:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/63913\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T01:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:31:11","slug":"astros-closer-josh-hader-headed-to-15-day-il-with-left-shoulder-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/63913\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros closer Josh Hader headed to 15-day IL with left shoulder strain"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Houston Astros made a splash last month<\/a> when they reunited with three-time All-Star Carlos Correa. But the Astros didn’t come away from the trade deadline with a new reliever.<\/p>\n

Now they’ve lost their best one to the 15-day IL.<\/p>\n

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Six-time All-Star Josh Hader, who is tied for third in MLB with 28 saves, will have to recover from a left shoulder strain before he returns to the mound, where he has posted a 2.05 ERA in 48 games this season.<\/p>\n

The lefty closer reported shoulder discomfort ahead of Monday’s game against the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s [a] punch in the gut,\u201d Astros manager Joe Espada said, per The Associated Press<\/a>. \u201cBut … he\u2019s seeing doctors right now. We\u2019re getting more tests done, and hopefully this is not going to be a long-term thing.”<\/p>\n

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Hader recorded a season-high 36 pitches across two innings Friday in New York during a 5-3 win against the Yankees that was settled in the 10th frame. That marked his seventh multi-inning appearance of the season.<\/p>\n

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He also warmed up down the stretch of Sunday’s series finale, but his number wasn’t called while the Astros wrapped up a 7-1 victory in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

Hader is in the second year of his five-year, $95 million deal with Houston<\/a>. He set a franchise record by starting the season 25-for-25 in save opportunities. Entering the week, he was tied for second among AL relievers in strikeouts, according to MLB.com.<\/p>\n

With Hader out, Espada isn’t planning to name a replacement closer. Instead, he told reporters that he’ll dispatch relievers from his bullpen depending on matchups.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel good about all those guys,\u201d Espada said.<\/p>\n

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It’s a group that welcomed back right-handed reliever Shawn Dubin, who was reinstated from the 15-day IL on Tuesday. The Astros also recalled lefty Colton Gordon from Triple-A Sugar Land.<\/p>\n

After bouncing back from a 2-8 stretch that started on July 24 and ended on Aug. 3, the 67-52 Astros went into Tuesday with a one-game lead over the Seattle Mariners in the AL West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Astros made a splash last month when they reunited with three-time All-Star Carlos Correa. But the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,30524,51153,5163,51151,51150,591,5162,51152,85,13523,6114],"class_list":{"0":"post-63913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-carlos-correa","11":"tag-colton-gordon","12":"tag-houston-astros","13":"tag-joe-espada","14":"tag-josh-hader","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-seattle-mariners","17":"tag-shawn-dubin","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-the-boston-red-sox","20":"tag-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}