{"id":356248,"date":"2026-06-30T20:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/356248\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T20:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:48:08","slug":"houston-astros-raynel-delgado-returns-with-jeremy-pena-on-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/356248\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros: Raynel Delgado returns with Jeremy Pe\u00f1a on IL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raynel Delgado\u2019s return to Triple-A Sugar Land proved brief.<\/p>\n<p>Pe\u00f1a reported leg \u201cdiscomfort\u201d before Monday\u2019s game against the Twins, manager Joe Espada said, and was evaluated by doctors. Espada expressed hope after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/minnesota-twins-game-recap-home-runs-22324633.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Houston\u2019s loss Monday night<\/a> that Pe\u00f1a will have a \u201cminimal IL stint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is Pe\u00f1a\u2019s second IL stint this season, as he missed more than a month with a right hamstring strain. Pe\u00f1a returned from that injury May 18 and posted a .307\/.372\/.471 slash line across 38 games prior to the calf injury.<\/p>\n<p>Delgado, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/houston-trade-raynel-delgado-22299676.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">acquired in a trade with the Rays<\/a>, debuted with the Astros and posted a .280\/.308\/.400 slash line over his first 13 major-league games. He was optioned to Triple-A on Monday with the Astros reinstating infielder Nick Allen from the injured list.<\/p>\n<p>Allen, who started Monday at shortstop, and Delgado could both see time at shortstop with Pe\u00f1a out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raynel Delgado\u2019s return to Triple-A Sugar Land proved brief. Pe\u00f1a reported leg \u201cdiscomfort\u201d before Monday\u2019s game against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-356248","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\/356248","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=356248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}