{"id":363153,"date":"2026-07-06T21:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/363153\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T21:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:59:08","slug":"houston-astros-braden-shewmake-activated-raynel-delgado-to-triple-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/363153\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros: Braden Shewmake activated, Raynel Delgado to Triple-A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Houston Astros<\/a> reinstated infielder Braden Shewmake from the injured list and optioned infielder Raynel Delgado to Triple-A Sugar Land before Monday\u2019s series opener against the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Shewmake missed a month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/houston-braden-shewmake-zach-cole-roster-moves-22288263.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">with a right adductor strain<\/a> that landed him on the injured list June 2. Prior to the injury,\u00a0Shewmake posted a .243\/.260\/.405 slash line across 28 games for the Astros, who acquired him from the Yankees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/braden-shewmake-houston-yankees-trade-22214665.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">in a mid-April trade<\/a> for minor-league pitcher Wilmy Sanchez.<\/p>\n<p>Shewmake made starts at three different infield positions for Houston before his injury. He drew the start at shortstop Monday against Nationals right-hander Miles Mikolas.<\/p>\n<p>Delgado, acquired last month from the Rays for cash considerations, has played in 16 games with the Astros this season, posting a .267\/.313\/.400 slash line across 33 major-league plate appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/jeremy-pena-return-before-all-star-break-22333203.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">expect to have shortstop Jeremy Pe\u00f1a back<\/a> from the IL during a series against the Rangers that begins Friday in Arlington.\u00a0Pe\u00f1a is scheduled to play his first minor-league rehab game Tuesday with Triple-A Sugar Land, manager Joe Espada said, and will be eligible to return from the IL starting Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014 The Houston Astros reinstated infielder Braden Shewmake from the injured list and optioned infielder Raynel Delgado to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-363153","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\/363153","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=363153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}