HOUSTON — Astros second baseman Jose Altuve will have an MRI on Sunday after leaving Houston’s 4-1 win over the Texas Rangers in the ninth inning Saturday night with soreness on his left side.<\/p>\n
Altuve took an awkward swing and didn’t run after hitting a grounder to third base in the eighth. He held his left side as he walked to the dugout, where he was met by manager Joe Espada and a trainer. Nick Allen replaced Altuve at second base in the ninth.<\/p>\n
The Astros entered Saturday’s game with 14 players on the injured list.<\/p>\n
“It’s frustrating, for sure,” first baseman Christian Walker said. “I see the guys prepare the right way every day. I see guys taking care of their body. Altuve’s dialed in. He eats the right stuff. He sleeps. He lives right and for something like that, it’s truly just a part of the game.”<\/p>\n
Altuve led off Saturday’s game with his fourth home run of the season. The nine-time batting .245 with 12 RBI for the Astros, who are 19-28 this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON — Astros second baseman Jose Altuve will have an MRI on Sunday after leaving Houston’s 4-1 win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,162661,248222,462,82],"class_list":["post-675237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-houston-astros-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-242","tag-jose-altuve-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-455591","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675237","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=675237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}