{"id":377771,"date":"2026-07-18T07:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377771\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T07:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:49:17","slug":"orioles-and-astros-lineups-for-series-opener-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377771\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles and Astros lineups for series opener in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Orioles begin the post-break part of their schedule tonight with Coby Mayo playing third base at Daikin Park in Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jackson Holliday is at second base. Samuel Basallo is the designated hitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outfield includes Colton Cowser in center and Dylan Beavers in right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christian Encarnacion-Strand is on the bench tonight after the Orioles recalled him yesterday. The 27 characters give him the longest full name in major league history. Encarnacion-Strand\u2019s last name (18 characters) will surpass Asher Wojciechowski (13) for the longest in club history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adley Rutschman has gone 30 consecutive plate appearances without a strikeout since July 4, the second-longest active streak in the majors behind Miami\u2019s Javier Sanoja (49).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scoring change: Kansas City\u2019s Josh Rojas reached in the second inning Sunday on what was originally ruled a throwing error on Blaze Alexander. It\u2019s been changed to a hit, and Rojas\u2019 run is now earned against Shane Baz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Catcher Creed Willems is beginning a rehab assignment with High-A Frederick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the Orioles<br \/>Gunnar Henderson SS<br \/>Adley Rutschman C<br \/>Taylor Ward LF<br \/>Pete Alonso 1B<br \/>Samuel Basallo DH<br \/>Dylan Beavers RF<br \/>Colton Cowser CF<br \/>Coby Mayo 3B<br \/>Jackson Holliday 2B<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dean Kremer RHP<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the Astros<br \/>Jeremy Pe\u00f1a SS<br \/>Yordan Alvarez DH<br \/>Isaac Paredes 3B<br \/>Christian Walker 1B<br \/>Jose Altuve 2B<br \/>LaMonte Wade LF<br \/>Cam Smith RF<br \/>Lucas Spence CF<br \/>Christian V\u00e1zquez C<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter Lambert RHP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orioles begin the post-break part of their schedule tonight with Coby Mayo playing third base at Daikin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[116161,88727,1492,56,58,57,115735,133598,116162],"class_list":["post-377771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-adley-rutschman","tag-dean-kremer","tag-featured","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-orioles","tag-roch-kubatko","tag-samuel-basallo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377771","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=377771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}