Wade took on-field batting practice Friday and is doing all baseball activities including running, manager Joe Espada said. The Astros plan to have Wade run bases \u201cin the next couple of days\u201d as a last step prior to starting a rehab assignment.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce he clears that hurdle, we\u2019re going to get him a couple games,\u201d Espada said.<\/p>\n
Wade, signed by the Astros on June 4, injured his hamstring in his fourth game with the team and landed on the IL on June 9. Espada initially said it appeared Wade would face a longer recovery, but he evidently has progressed more quickly.<\/p>\n
Signed to give the Astros a veteran left-handed bat in the outfield and off the bench, Wade went 4-for-12 with the club before going on the IL.<\/p>\n
Infielder Nick Allen also did on-field work Friday as he recovers from a left hamstring strain sustained on June 7. Espada said Allen is \u201cmoving along very well\u201d and the Astros will \u201csee what he needs\u201d regarding rehab games.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth players are really, really close to joining the club if we need them,\u201d Espada said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wade took on-field batting practice Friday and is doing all baseball activities including running, manager Joe Espada said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-343518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343518","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=343518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}