{"id":441443,"date":"2026-09-19T22:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441443\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T22:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:36:09","slug":"houston-astros-jake-meyers-out-for-season-with-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441443\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros: Jake Meyers out for season with knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/jake-meyers-center-field-trade-rumors-21356770.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Jake Meyers<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Houston Astros<\/a>\u2019 opening-day center fielder, will miss the rest of the season after fouling a ball off his knee at Triple-A Sugar Land last week, manager Joe Espada said.<\/p>\n<p>Meyers last played for Sugar Land on Sept. 11 and was placed on the 7-day minor-league injured list the next day. Espada did not have an exact diagnosis of Meyers\u2019 injury but said Meyers fouled a pitch off his left kneecap area and is wearing a brace. Meyers\u2019 injury was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/brianmctaggart\/status\/2100345390541185530?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">first reported by MLB.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meyers played in at least 100 games with the Astros each of the past three seasons. He was a Gold Glove finalist in center field in 2024 but owns a career .671 OPS in the majors. After batting a career-high .292 last year, he hit .213 with Houston this season. He had a .639 OPS in 35 games at Triple-A.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros recalled Meyers when rosters expanded on Sept. 1 but subsequently sent him back to Triple-A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/jorge-barrosa-waiver-claim-diamondbacks-22420227.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">when they claimed outfielder Jorge Barrosa<\/a> off waivers. Barrosa was designated for assignment Saturday, when the Astros reinstated utility player Brice Matthews from the injured list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Meyers, the Houston Astros\u2019 opening-day center fielder, will miss the rest of the season after fouling a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-441443","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\/441443","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=441443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}