HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 The Houston Astros placed outfielder Joey Loperfido on the 10-day injured list on Sunday because of a right quad strain.<\/p>\n
In a corresponding move, the Astros recalled right-handed pitcher Jayden Murray from Triple-A Sugar Land.<\/p>\n
Loperfido 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
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’ Triple-A affiliate in Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 The Houston Astros placed outfielder Joey Loperfido on the 10-day injured list on Sunday because…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[96700,56,5513,58,57,93587,88823,202,196,942],"class_list":["post-257084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-braden-shewmake","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-jayden-murray","tag-joey-loperfido","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257084","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=257084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}