The Houston Astros (6-8-3) travel to Jupiter, FL to take on the Miami Marlins (6-9-1).<\/p>\n
RHP Tatsuya Imai will be on the mound for the Astros, opposite RHP Max Meyer for the Marlins.<\/p>\n
TODAY\u2019S STARTER: RHP Tatsuya Imai is set to make his third start of the Grapefruit League. In his last start on March 5 at MIA, he allowed one hit and one walk with three strikeouts in two scoreless innings.<\/p>\n
In January, the Astros signed free agent Imai to a three-year deal. In 2025, he was an All-Star for the Seibu Lions in the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization (NPB), where he went 10-5 with a 1.92 ERA (35ER\/163.2IP) in 24 games. Among qualified pitchers, Imai posted the lowest WHIP (0.89) in the Pacific League, while ranking second with 178 strikeouts in his 163.2 innings pitched.<\/p>\n
Imai has been an NPB All-Star three times in his career (2021, 2024, 2025) that has spanned parts of eight seasons (2018-25). He went 58-45 overall with a 3.15 ERA in 159 games in the NPB.<\/p>\n
TODAY\u2019S POTENTIAL RELIEVERS: RHP Spencer Arrighetti, RHP Anthony Maldonado, LHP Steven Okert and RHP Christian Roa.<\/p>\n
Game Date\/Time: Wednesday, March 11, 12:10 p.m. CST<\/p>\n
Location: Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium, Jupiter, FL.<\/p>\n
Streaming: MLB.com (audio only)<\/p>\n
Radio: KBME 790 AM\/94.5 FM HD-2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Astros (6-8-3) travel to Jupiter, FL to take on the Miami Marlins (6-9-1). RHP Tatsuya Imai…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[5,67679,72462,1816,778,58,4171,4],"class_list":["post-619611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-marlins","tag-baseball","tag-houston-astros-game-information","tag-houston-astros-spring-training","tag-marlins","tag-miami","tag-miami-marlins","tag-miamimarlins","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116214281787133533","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619611","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=619611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}