{"id":448400,"date":"2026-09-26T11:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T11:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448400\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T11:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T11:12:08","slug":"athletics-host-the-houston-astros-saturday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448400\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics host the Houston Astros Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Astros<\/a> (79-81, first in the AL West) vs. Athletics<\/a> (64-96, fourth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

West Sacramento, California; Saturday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: Hayden Wesneski<\/a> (5-2, 3.50 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 41 strikeouts); Athletics: Jack Perkins<\/a> (3-12, 5.90 ERA, 1.45 WHIP, 131 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Astros -143, Athletics +118; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics square off against the Houston Astros on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Athletics have a 64-96 record overall and a 32-47 record at home. The Athletics have a 34-17 record in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

Houston is 79-81 overall and 40-39 in road games. The Astros rank second in the majors with 220 total home runs, averaging 1.4 per game.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the 12th meeting between these teams this season. The Athletics hold a 6-5 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Shea Langeliers<\/a> leads the Athletics with 23 home runs while slugging .478. Lawrence Butler<\/a> is 12 for 39 with two doubles, a triple, a home run and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Yordan Alvarez<\/a> has a .315 batting average to lead the Astros, and has 33 doubles, a triple and 41 home runs. Yainer Diaz<\/a> is 12 for 37 with three home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 3-7, .251 batting average, 5.68 ERA, outscored by 15 runs<\/p>\n

Astros: 4-6, .244 batting average, 3.94 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Athletics: Alika Williams: day-to-day (upper body), Nick Kurtz: 60-Day IL (thumb), Max Muncy<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), J.T. Ginn: 60-Day IL (elbow), Brooks Kriske: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Justin Sterner<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Gage Jump: 15-Day IL (left shoulder), Luis Severino<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jacob Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Tyler Soderstrom: 60-Day IL (hip), Mark Leiter<\/a> Jr.: 60-Day IL (hip), Brent Rooker: 60-Day IL (knee), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

Astros: Daulton Varsho: 10-Day IL (wrist), Jake Meyers<\/a>: 60-Day IL (kneecap), Brice Matthews: 10-Day IL (knee), Cristian Javier: 15-Day IL (groin), Steven Okert<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Enyel De Los Santos<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Mike Burrows<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Correa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Astros (79-81, first in the AL West) vs. Athletics (64-96, fourth in the AL West) West Sacramento,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[301,91668,88211,113109,64550,91667,56,5513,58,57,99782,90588,90790,95728,90592,99275,42750,154472,90591,44042,90586,111533,90589,57925],"class_list":["post-448400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-athletics","tag-brandon-walter","tag-carlos-correa","tag-enyel-de-los-santos","tag-event_preview","tag-hayden-wesneski","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-jack-perkins","tag-jacob-wilson","tag-jake-meyers","tag-justin-sterner","tag-lawrence-butler","tag-luis-severino","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mark-leiter-jr","tag-max-muncy","tag-mike-burrows","tag-shea-langeliers","tag-steven-okert","tag-yainer-diaz","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448400","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=448400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}