The Houston Astros (3-7-3) host the Miami Marlins (6-6) in Grapefruit League play.<\/p>\n
RHP Jason Alexander will make his third start of the Spring opposite RHP Chris Paddack for the Marlins.<\/p>\n
Isaac Paredes will make his first appearance at second base this spring.<\/p>\n
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TODAY\u2019S STARTER: Today will be the third start of the Spring for RHP Jason Alexander. He was strong in his last outing, tossing 2.0 scoreless innings vs. the Mets on March 1 at Clover Park. 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
TODAY\u2019S POTENTIAL RELIEVERS: RHP Sam Carlson, RHP Michael Knorr, RHP Anthony Maldonado, RHP Roddery Mu\u00f1oz and RHP Alimber Santa.<\/p>\n
VS. THE MARLINS: Today will mark the third of six Grapefruit League matchups between the Astros and Marlins this Spring. The clubs will also meet for a Spring Breakout exhibition on March 19 at CACTI Park of the Palm Beaches. The Astros are 1-1 vs. the Marlins this Spring.<\/p>\n
TODAY\u2019S ROSTER MOVE: The Astros have signed veteran C Christian V\u00e1zquez to a minor league contract with an invite to Major League Spring Training. V\u00e1zquez, 35, has played in 11 Major League seasons (2014, 2016-25) and has batted .250 (810\u00d73244) with 71 home runs and 349 RBI in 993 career games. He batted .271 (36\u00d7190) in 65 games with the Twins last season.<\/p>\n
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This will mark his second stint with the Astros, as he was acquired ahead of the 2022 Trade Deadline, starting in the club\u2019s combined no-hitter in Game 4 of the World Series, as well as the series-clinching Game 6. V\u00e1zquez is currently playing for Team Puerto Rico in the World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n
Game Info<\/p>\n
Game Date\/Time: Saturday, March 7, 11:05 a.m. CST<\/p>\n
Location: CACTI Park of the Palm Beaches, West Palm Beach, FL.<\/p>\n
TV: none<\/p>\n
Streaming: HOU video livestream (astros.com)<\/p>\n
Radio: KBME 790 AM\/94.5 FM HD-2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Astros (3-7-3) host the Miami Marlins (6-6) in Grapefruit League play. RHP Jason Alexander will make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,752,1250,182,14900,54,893,11838,58,78041,4,64,4304,151,1949,812,68637],"class_list":{"0":"post-611922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chris-paddack","10":"tag-christian-vazquez","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-hou","13":"tag-houston-astros","14":"tag-isaac-paredes","15":"tag-jason-alexander","16":"tag-miami-marlins","17":"tag-michael-knorr","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","20":"tag-spring","21":"tag-spring-training","22":"tag-the-athletics","23":"tag-the-mets","24":"tag-west-palm-beach"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116188935052883751","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611922","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=611922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}