{"id":344890,"date":"2026-06-21T18:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/344890\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:11:10","slug":"houston-astros-mike-burrows-to-start-during-blue-jays-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/344890\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros: Mike Burrows to start during Blue Jays series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Burrows will slot back into the Houston Astros<\/a>‘ starting rotation during their upcoming series in Toronto after a brief detour to the bullpen.<\/p>\n

Hunter Brown is slated to start Monday\u2019s opener against the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre, followed by Peter Lambert and Burrows, the Astros said. Brown and Lambert will both start on five days\u2019 rest.<\/p>\n

Plugging Burrows back into the rotation as a sixth starter would allow the Astros to also keep Tatsuya Imai, Spencer Arrighetti and Kai-Wei Teng on five days\u2019 rest for their next starts. Houston just began a stretch of 13 games with no off day Friday.<\/p>\n

Burrows, shifted to the bullpen<\/a> during this weekend\u2019s series against the Guardians, threw a scoreless inning in Friday\u2019s opener<\/a>. Manager Joe Espada indicated Sunday morning that Burrows\u2019 role beyond a start in Toronto remains somewhat unsettled.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully this break \u2026 will help him kind of get a little blow,\u201d Espada said. \u201cAnd then we\u2019ll see where it takes us. That\u2019s a pretty good Toronto offense and we feel like he\u2019s in a good spot. So one day at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Burrows has a 5.79 ERA this season while leading the Astros in starts (14) and innings pitched (79 \u2153). That innings number is already more than halfway toward Burrows\u2019 total of 128 \u2153 last season, which was one reason Houston cited for skipping his previous turn.<\/p>\n

Burrows said the bullpen stint would also be a chance to \u201cwork on some stuff,\u201d<\/a> including an attempt to raise his arm angle, which is 9 degrees lower on average than last season, per Baseball Savant, altering the traits\u00a0\u2014 and ostensibly the effectiveness\u00a0\u2014 of some of his pitches.<\/p>\n

If the Astros stay in their current six-man rotation, the spot Burrows fills Wednesday will come up once more during their 13-game stretch, in the middle of a home series against the Twins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Burrows will slot back into the Houston Astros‘ starting rotation during their upcoming series in Toronto after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-344890","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\/344890","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=344890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}