{"id":245682,"date":"2026-04-12T00:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245682\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T00:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:30:08","slug":"astros-rookie-pitcher-tatsuya-imai-sent-back-to-houston-because-of-right-arm-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245682\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros rookie pitcher Tatsuya Imai sent back to Houston because of right arm fatigue"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE \u2014 Astros rookie pitcher Tatsuya Imai returned to Houston after his third start to be examined for right arm fatigue.<\/p>\n

A 27-year-old right-hander, Imai got just one out in Friday’s 9-6 loss to Seattle. He allowed three runs, one hit, three walks and a hit batter while throwing 37 pitches.<\/p>\n

\u201cYesterday, he expressed some arm fatigue, so once we heard that we decided to just send him home to be seen by our doctors,\u201d Espada said Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully there is nothing wrong,\u201d Espada added. \u201cJust not good news.\u201d<\/p>\n

Imai signed a $54 million, three-year contract and is 1-0 with a 7.27 ERA. He has 11 walks and 13 strikeouts in 8 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

Imai said the mound at T-Mobile Park was really hard and he wasn\u2019t able to adjust. He did not mention any injury Friday when speaking with reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce he was done with talking to the media, he mentioned (his injury) to our trainers,\u201d Espada said. <\/p>\n

\"Houston<\/p>\n

Houston Astros starting pitcher Tatsuya Imai sits in the dugout after being taken out of the game during the first inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners, Friday, April 10, 2026, in Seattle. Credit: AP\/Lindsey Wasson<\/p>\n

Houston placed right-hander Hunter Brown on the 15-day injured list last Sunday due to a right shoulder strain and right-hander Cristian Javier was put on the IL Friday because of a similar ailment.<\/p>\n

Right-hander J.P. France was optioned to Triple-A Sugar Land after pitching 2 2\/3 innings Friday and right-hander Jayden Murray was recalled from the Space Cowboys. The 29-year-old Murray is 0-1 with a 1.50 ERA in six innings at Sugar Land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 Astros rookie pitcher Tatsuya Imai returned to Houston after his third start to be examined for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,5513,58,57,991],"class_list":{"0":"post-245682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-astros","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-wires-bot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}