{"id":398528,"date":"2026-08-05T18:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398528\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T18:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:06:08","slug":"houston-astros-isaac-paredes-gets-rare-day-off-for-blue-jays-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398528\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros: Isaac Paredes gets rare day off for Blue Jays finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Third baseman Isaac Paredes<\/a> was absent from the Houston Astros<\/a> lineup for the first time in nearly two months Wednesday for their series finale against the Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n

Paredes had started every game since June 14 for Houston. Manager Joe Espada said it was a scheduled day off for Paredes, giving him back-to-back rest days with a team off day Thursday.\u00a0Paredes entered the day in a 4-for-36 funk over his last nine games.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think physically he\u2019s fine,\u201d Espada said. \u201cI just see a little more of trying to do a little bit too much at the plate. He\u2019s gotten some big at-bats, he\u2019s gotten some big hits for us, big hit-by-pitches, some big walks. Just a little mental break for him I think will benefit him today and tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paredes ranked third among Astros position players in bWAR entering Wednesday and was tied for third in OPS-plus among their active hitters. He has regularly batted behind Yordan Alvarez since late June, an important spot given opponents\u2019 tendency to pitch around Alvarez\u00a0\u2014 the majors\u2019 leader in OPS\u00a0\u2014 and the traffic created by leadoff man Jeremy Pe\u00f1a and Alvarez.<\/p>\n

No Houston hitter has taken more plate appearances with runners in scoring position than Paredes this season. Only Christian Walker has logged as many with runners on base.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think Paredes sees it as pressure,\u201d Espada said. \u201cI think he is meant to hit in those spots, just his personality and how calm and collected he is. \u2026 I just see that he just kind of needs a little mental break. He\u2019s been playing a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jose Altuve moved up the lineup to bat third behind Alvarez for the finale against the Blue Jays. Altuve entered the day with multiple hits in five of his last seven games, a stretch in which he was 11-for-28, a .393 average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Third baseman Isaac Paredes was absent from the Houston Astros lineup for the first time in nearly two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-398528","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\/398528","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=398528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}