The Houston Astros starter was scratched from his scheduled start today vs. Minnesota.<\/p>\n
The Astros have placed\u00a0RHP Lance McCullers Jr.\u00a0on the 15-day IL (retro 5\/16) due to right shoulder inflammation.<\/p>\n
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The team also optioned UT Shay Whitcomb<\/a> to Triple-A Sugar Land.<\/p>\n Houston has reinstated CF Jake Meyers<\/a> and RHP Nate Pearson<\/a> from the Injured List.<\/p>\n McCullers becomes the fourth member of the Astros\u2019 Opening Day starting rotation to land on the IL.<\/p>\n Jason Alexander is making the start tonight for Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Astros starter was scratched from his scheduled start today vs. Minnesota. The Astros have placed\u00a0RHP Lance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[373,84731,69753,363,182289,481,255135,99],"class_list":["post-653366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-houston-astros","tag-jake-meyers","tag-lance-mccullers-jr","tag-mlb","tag-nate-pearson","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-shay-whitcomb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}