{"id":361989,"date":"2026-07-05T18:12:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/361989\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T18:12:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:12:33","slug":"houston-astros-jeremy-pena-on-track-to-return-before-all-star-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/361989\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros: Jeremy Pe\u00f1a on track to return before All-Star break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Houston Astros<\/a> shortstop Jeremy Pe\u00f1a appears on track to return from a calf injury during the club\u2019s final series before the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p>Pe\u00f1a has done on-field defensive work and run the bases at Daikin Park in recent days. Houston manager Joe Espada said Pe\u00f1a will likely play one or two rehab games with Triple-A Sugar Land early this week in a tuneup before his potential reinstatement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we are in a good spot for him to rejoin the club at some point in that weekend series at Texas if all goes well,\u201d Espada said.<\/p>\n<p>In 48 games this season, Pe\u00f1a has a .295\/.356\/.443 slash line and a 123 OPS-plus. Entering Sunday, the Astros were 25-20 with the shortstop and leadoff hitter in their starting lineup and 19-27 without him.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros will conclude their first half with a six-game road trip to play the Nationals and Rangers, who were in second place in the American League West entering Sunday, a half-game behind Seattle and two games ahead of Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Astros shortstop Jeremy Pe\u00f1a appears on track to return from a calf injury during the club\u2019s final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-361989","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\/361989","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=361989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}