{"id":446884,"date":"2026-09-25T01:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446884\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T01:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:52:09","slug":"houston-astros-shortstop-jeremy-pena-back-in-lineup-against-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446884\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros shortstop Jeremy Pe\u00f1a back in lineup against Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2013 Shortstop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/jeremy-pena-out-forearm-injury-22446439.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Jeremy Pe\u00f1a<\/a> returned to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Houston Astros<\/a> lineup on Thursday from a one-game absence after he was hit by a pitch on his right forearm Tuesday night in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Pe\u00f1a was hit by a 96.4 mph pitch in the eighth inning Tuesday and removed from that game in the next half-inning. He appeared as a pinch-runner in Wednesday\u2019s loss to the Mariners but was limited to that role, manager Joe Espada said.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, Pe\u00f1a was back at shortstop and in the leadoff spot for the opener of Houston\u2019s final regular-season series against the A\u2019s. The Astros entered the day tied atop the American League West with the Rangers, who won Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe says he\u2019s good enough to play,\u201d Espada said pregame. \u201cSo I trust him and he\u2019ll be ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pe\u00f1a was one of three Astros players who left Tuesday\u2019s game due to injury concerns. Starter Cristian Javier (right groin strain) and outfielder Brice Matthews (left knee inflammation) were subsequently placed on the injured list, ending their regular seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Pitchers Steven Okert and Mike Burrows, who are on the injured list, both joined the Astros in West Sacramento, raising the possibility of their contributing at some point in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Okert, recovering from a right hamstring strain, threw from a mound Wednesday and is slated to do so again in \u201cthe next day or two,\u201d Espada said. Whether Okert could be available after that is unclear. The left-hander has been on the injured list since Sept. 4 and has not faced hitters in that stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Burrows, who is recovering from a shoulder setback, made a two-inning rehab start for Triple-A Sugar Land last weekend and could potentially be a long relief or swingman option. Espada termed both of them \u201con standby.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2013 Shortstop Jeremy Pe\u00f1a returned to the Houston Astros lineup on Thursday from a one-game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-446884","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\/446884","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=446884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}