The Astros (1-5-2) visit Port St. Lucie today to take on the New York Mets (4-3-1) at Clover Park.<\/p>\n
RHP Jason Alexander will start for the Astros vs. Mets RHP Clay Holmes.<\/p>\n
Today is the third game of six scheduled meetings between the Astros and Mets this Spring. The Astros are 0-1-1 thus far vs. the Mets. After today, their next meeting will not be until Mar. 14 in West Palm Beach. The two clubs will face off in the regular season in a three-game set, Aug. 28-30 at Citi Field.<\/p>\n
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Today will be the second start of the Spring for RHP Jason Alexander. His previous start was also at Clover Park on Feb. 24. Alexander proved to be a valuable in-season pickup for the Astros in 2025 when claimed off waivers on May 18 after being DFA\u2019d by the Athletics. In his 14 appearances (13 starts) with HOU, he was 4-2 with a 3.66 ERA (29ER\/71.1IP) with a save.<\/p>\n
Remarkable Run: From July 29 \u2013 Sept. 15, the Astros went 9-0 in his nine starts, with Alexander posting a 2.32 ERA in that span. For August, Alexander was 3-0 with a 2.17 ERA in five starts.<\/p>\n
Today is Jason Alexander\u2019s 33rd birthday.<\/p>\n
TODAY\u2019S POTENTIAL RELIEVERS: LHP Tom Cosgrove, RHP Anthony Maldonado, RHP Christian Roa, RHP Alimber Santa, RHP Kai-Wei Teng, RHP Amos Willingham.<\/p>\n
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WALK THIS WAY: The Astros have drawn a combined 58 walks in eight games (7.3 per game).<\/p>\n
REDDICK RETURNS:\u00a0Former Astro Josh\u00a0Reddick\u00a0is scheduled to arrive in camp on Monday to serve as a special instructor. Reddick played in HOU from 2017-2020.<\/p>\n
Game Info<\/p>\n
Game Date\/Time: Sunday, March 1, 12:10 p.m. CST<\/p>\n
Location: Clover Park, Port St. Lucie, FL.<\/p>\n
TV: No Local Broadcast<\/p>\n
Streaming: MLB.tv, SportsNet New York (SNY)<\/p>\n
Radio: KBME 790 AM\/94.5 FM HD-2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Astros (1-5-2) visit Port St. Lucie today to take on the New York Mets (4-3-1) at Clover…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2389],"tags":[32172,42,5,45496,1712,76569,182,139,54,3211,893,11838,30273,37588,4,61,25983,1949,876,68637,78230],"class_list":{"0":"post-600336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-alimber-santa","9":"tag-astros","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-christian-roa","12":"tag-clay-holmes","13":"tag-clover-park","14":"tag-florida","15":"tag-houston","16":"tag-houston-astros","17":"tag-houstonastros","18":"tag-isaac-paredes","19":"tag-jason-alexander","20":"tag-josh-reddick","21":"tag-kai-wei-teng","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-new-york-mets","24":"tag-port-st-lucie","25":"tag-the-athletics","26":"tag-tom-cosgrove","27":"tag-west-palm-beach","28":"tag-willingham"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116155664704728055","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600336","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=600336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}