{"id":71128,"date":"2025-08-15T21:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/71128\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T21:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:10:07","slug":"astros-josh-hader-dealing-with-left-shoulder-capsule-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/71128\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros&#8217; Josh Hader dealing with left shoulder capsule strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-astros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Astros<\/a> All-Star closer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32760\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Hader<\/a> will be shut down from throwing for approximately three weeks after the team announced Friday he has been diagnosed with left shoulder capsule strain.<\/p>\n<p>Hader was placed on the injured list on Monday for the first time in his nine-year major league career because of a shoulder strain. Astros manager Joe Espada said Wednesday that Hader would seek a second opinion before determining a next course of action.<\/p>\n<p>A six-time All-Star, Hader, who is in his second year with the Astros, is 6-2 with a 2.05 ERA and is tied for third with 28 saves in 48 appearances this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros entered play on Friday leading the American League West by 1\u00bd games, despite having 13 players on the injured list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8212; Astros All-Star closer Josh Hader will be shut down from throwing for approximately three weeks after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-71128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71128","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=71128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}