{"id":352794,"date":"2026-06-27T17:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352794\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T17:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:07:11","slug":"houston-astros-nick-allen-braden-shewmake-to-start-rehab-assignments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352794\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros: Nick Allen, Braden Shewmake to start rehab assignments"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT\u00a0\u2014 Houston Astros<\/a> infielders Nick Allen and Braden Shewmake were scheduled to begin minor-league rehab assignments Saturday in their recoveries from injuries.<\/p>\n

Allen, who is returning from a left hamstring strain<\/a>, was set to join Triple-A Sugar Land to begin playing rehab games. Allen injured his hamstring June 7 running the bases. The utility infielder has played in 37 games for the Astros this season with a .250\/.290\/.328 slash line in 70 plate appearances.<\/p>\n

Shewmake, who was placed on the injured list June 2 with a right adductor strain<\/a>, was assigned to the Astros\u2019 Florida Complex League affiliate to begin his rehab assignment. Shewmake played in 28 games with Houston before his injury, posting a .243\/.260\/.405 slash line over 79 plate appearances.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Lance McCullers Jr.<\/a> is slated to make his second rehab start in his recovery from a shoulder injury Wednesday for Triple-A Sugar Land, manager Joe\u00a0Espada said. McCullers threw three innings and 42 pitches in his first rehab start Thursday at Triple-A, with two hits allowed, no walks and four strikeouts.<\/p>\n

Friday, Espada said McCullers will need \u201ca few more\u201d rehab outings as he works toward potentially re-joining the Astros: \u201cIt\u2019s all about how he feels, how good his stuff looks, and then once we get close to making those decisions, we\u2019ll have a conversation about where all those guys will fit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ronel Blanco<\/a> will make his next rehab start Wednesday for Double-A Corpus Christi in his return from Tommy John surgery, Espada said. Blanco threw 3 \u2153 innings and 50 pitches in his last outing at Corpus Christi, allowing two hits, walking two and striking out two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT\u00a0\u2014 Houston Astros infielders Nick Allen and Braden Shewmake were scheduled to begin minor-league rehab assignments Saturday in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-352794","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\/352794","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=352794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}