{"id":78059,"date":"2025-08-12T21:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/78059\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T21:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:16:08","slug":"astros-put-closer-josh-hader-on-il-with-shoulder-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/78059\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros put closer Josh Hader on IL with shoulder strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 12, 2025, 04:42 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"00a3015f-09ec-1b03-52af-656f5e0a18d5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-astros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Astros<\/a> All-Star closer <a data-player-guid=\"5fda622f-acfd-2831-a36b-6da82e8e798a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32760\/josh-hader\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Hader<\/a> was placed on the 15-day injured list Tuesday with a left shoulder strain.<\/p>\n<p>The left-hander had been unavailable Monday night after experiencing shoulder discomfort. Manager Joe Espada had said after Houston&#8217;s win over the Red Sox that Hader said &#8220;he just did not feel right&#8221; after a workout Monday, and the Astros sent him for testing.<\/p>\n<p>The IL move is retroactive to Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/45947026\/mlb-rank-2025-season-update-top-50-baseball-players-judge-ohtani-skubal-raleigh\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mlb_rank_in_season_FC_1x1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hader, who is in his second season in Houston, is 6-2 with a 2.05 ERA and is tied for third in the majors with 28 saves in 48 appearances this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros also reinstated RHP Shawn Dubin from the 15-day IL, recalled LHP Colton Gordon from Triple-A and designated RHP <a data-player-guid=\"58084231-0cc1-cb66-450b-9edf4b174294\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32377\/hector-neris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hector Neris<\/a> for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 12, 2025, 04:42 PM ET Houston Astros All-Star closer Josh Hader was placed on the 15-day injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-78059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78059","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=78059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}