{"id":364372,"date":"2026-07-07T20:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364372\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T20:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:02:07","slug":"houston-astros-send-struggling-mike-burrows-to-triple-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364372\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros send struggling Mike Burrows to Triple-A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burrows allowed 10 runs, seven earned, in his outing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/houston-washington-nationals-score-recap-22333788.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">a 12-11 loss to Washington<\/a> that raised his ERA to 5.99, second-highest among qualified major-league starters entering Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/trade-mike-burrows-pirates-prospects-melton-brito-21252602.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Acquired from the Pirates<\/a> in an offseason trade, Burrows leads Houston in starts (17) and innings pitched (94 2\/3), but has recorded just four quality starts, with the Astros going 6-11 in his outings.<\/p>\n<p>Burrows was the only member of the Astros\u2019 season-opening rotation to spend the full season to date on the active roster, with Hunter Brown, Cristian Javier, Tatsuya Imai and Lance McCullers Jr. all missing time on the injured list.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros recalled reliever Alimber Santa from Triple-A to replace Burrows on the active roster. Burrows\u2019 rotation spot is due once more before the All-Star break, meaning Houston will need to decide how to fill it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burrows allowed 10 runs, seven earned, in his outing in a 12-11 loss to Washington that raised his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-364372","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\/364372","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=364372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}