{"id":585587,"date":"2026-02-21T23:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/585587\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T23:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:51:15","slug":"lets-overreact-to-a-spring-training-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/585587\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s overreact to a spring training game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Astros opened their spring training schedule with a 2-1 loss to the Nationals on Saturday afternoon in West Palm Beach. While no veterans were in action, Joe Espada\u2019s lineup was littered with guys fighting to make the Opening Day roster, making the first half of the game somewhat interesting. Here are some notes and thoughts from the game\u2019s first five innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Astros opened their spring training schedule with a 2-1 loss to the Nationals on Saturday afternoon in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,139,54,64940,65265,67679,72462,4522,31511,32124,3211,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-585587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-astros","12":"tag-houston-astros-analysis","13":"tag-houston-astros-discussion","14":"tag-houston-astros-game-information","15":"tag-houston-astros-spring-training","16":"tag-houston-astros-news","17":"tag-houston-astros-prospects-minor-leagues","18":"tag-houston-astros-roster","19":"tag-houstonastros","20":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116111309987742117","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}