The Houston Astros (5-8-3) host the Baltimore Orioles (7-8-2) in Grapefruit League play.<\/p>\n
RHP Lance McCullers Jr. is set to start for the Astros, with RHP Levi Wells starting for the Orioles.<\/p>\n
TODAY\u2019S STARTER: This is Lance McCullers Jr.\u2019s second appearance of the spring. He previously pitched one shutout inning on Feb 27 vs. the Nationals, working a 1-2-3 inning on 8 pitches. His velocity was improved from last year, primarily working 93-94 with his fastball\/sinker.<\/p>\n
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He made his return to the mound in 2025 after missing the entire 2023-24 seasons due to a right flexor tendon injury that required surgery, working around four IL stints to go 2-5 with a 6.51 ERA (40ER\/55.1IP) and 9.92 SO\/9IP through 16 games (13 starts).<\/p>\n
TODAY\u2019S POTENTIAL RELIEVERS: RHP Bryan Abreu, RHP AJ Blubaugh, LHP Tom Cogrove, LHP Bryan King, RHP Michael Knorr, RHP Roddery Mu\u00f1oz.<\/p>\n
TODAY\u2019S ROSTER MOVES: Following yesterday\u2019s game, the Astros reassigned C Walker Janek and OF Lucas Spence to minor league camp\u2026additionally, the Astros optioned RHP Jayden Murray to minor league camp this morning.<\/p>\n
ASTROS IN WBC: IF\/OF Shay Whitcomb went 1\u00d71 with a double as a pinch-hitter in Team Korea\u2019s 7-2 win yesterday vs. Team Australia. Team Korea secured a spot in the WBC quarterfinals with the victory.<\/p>\n
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In Team Italy\u2019s last game on Sunday vs. Team Great Britain, IF\/OF Zach Dezenzo went 1\u00d73 with a double, a walk and two runs scored.<\/p>\n
Game Info<\/p>\n
Game Date\/Time: Tuesday, March 10, 12:05 p.m. CST<\/p>\n
Location: CACTI Park of the Palm Beaches, West Palm Beach, FL.<\/p>\n
TV: Space City Home Network, MLB Network (HOU Blackout)<\/p>\n
Streaming: SCHN+<\/p>\n
Radio: KBME 790 AM\/94.5 FM HD-2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Astros (5-8-3) host the Baltimore Orioles (7-8-2) in Grapefruit League play. RHP Lance McCullers Jr. is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2374],"tags":[2198,18716,143,47,2538,5,7618,9279,2178,54,44839,1484,78041,4,125,18482,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-617098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-angel-stadium-of-anaheim","10":"tag-baltimore","11":"tag-baltimore-orioles","12":"tag-baltimoreorioles","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-bryan-abreu","15":"tag-bryan-king","16":"tag-california","17":"tag-houston-astros","18":"tag-jayden-murray","19":"tag-lance-mccullers-jr","20":"tag-michael-knorr","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-orioles","23":"tag-shay-whitcomb","24":"tag-zach-dezenzo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116205854864692379","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617098","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=617098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}