{"id":614901,"date":"2026-04-19T17:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/614901\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T17:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:46:14","slug":"astros-place-outfielder-joey-loperfido-on-injured-list-with-right-quad-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/614901\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros place outfielder Joey Loperfido on injured list with right quad strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/houston-astros\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"houston-astros\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houston Astros<\/a> placed outfielder Joey Loperfido on the 10-day injured list on Sunday because of a right quad strain.<\/p>\n<p>In a corresponding move, the Astros recalled right-handed pitcher Jayden Murray from Triple-A Sugar Land.<\/p>\n<p>Loperfido, who was acquired from the Toronto Blue Jays for outfielder Jesus Sanchez during spring training, suffered the injury during Friday\u2019s 9-4 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. He is batting .259 with six RBIs in 20 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the Astros acquired infielder Braden Shewmake from the Yankees for minor league pitcher Wilmy Sanchez. Shewmake has spent the start of the season with the Yankees&#8217; Triple-A affiliate in Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2014 The Houston Astros placed outfielder Joey Loperfido on the 10-day injured list on Sunday because of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-614901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}