Walker was removed from the game due to \u201cright hip tightness,\u201d the Astros said, while Pe\u00f1a exited due to a right hamstring cramp.<\/p>\n
Manager Joe Espada did not have a further update on either player postgame but said both were going for tests. Neither Pe\u00f1a nor Walker were available for comment after the game.<\/p>\n
Pe\u00f1a, batting in the bottom of the third, fouled off a pitch and was visited by Espada and a team trainer. Pe\u00f1a shook out his right leg during the discussion. He finished the at-bat, striking out swinging, and was replaced on defense by Nick Allen in the fourth.<\/p>\n
Espada said the issue Saturday was \u201ckind of similar. It looked like a cramp (on) the pitch when I went out there. And then once he took the last swing, it cramped up again, so we just took him out to make sure that we take care of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the bottom of the fourth, Walker took a check swing and promptly reached for and stretched out his right side.\u00a0Espada and a trainer emerged again from the dugout. Walker was removed mid-at-bat, with LaMonte Wade Jr. finishing the at-bat and staying in the game at first base.<\/p>\n
With the Astros six games under .500 after their loss Saturday, any absence for Pe\u00f1a or Walker, two of their everyday players, would be ill-timed. Walker has played in all but two of 100 games for Houston this season, while Pe\u00f1a has played in 53 games due to various injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walker was removed from the game due to \u201cright hip tightness,\u201d the Astros said, while Pe\u00f1a exited due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-379090","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\/379090","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=379090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}