he Houston Astros (0-2) continue their opening 4 game series against the Los Angeles Angels (2-0) tonight at Daikin Park.<\/p>\n
RHP Cristian Javier\u00a0will make his first start of the season for the Astros opposite RHP Reid Detmets and the Angels.<\/p>\n
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TONIGHT\u2019S ASTROS STARTER:\u00a0RHP Cristian Javier is returning to the rotation full time since the 2024 season. He had Tommy John surgery early in the season and did not return until August of 2025. He pitched in eight games to close out the season and finish 2-4 with a 4.52 ERA in 37.0 INN, He had 34 strikeouts and 15 walks in those innings.<\/p>\n
Javier put up good numbers this Spring, making three starts and posting a 1.69 ERA (2ER\/10.2 IP) while allowing a .219 opponent batting average with 10 strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Reid Detmers:\u00a0Detmers has been with the Angels since 2021. He has toggled between the rotation and the bullpen. His best season came in 2022 when he was 7-6 with a 3.77 ERA in 25 starts. Last season he was 5-3 with a 3,96 ERA pitching exclusively out of the pen.<\/p>\n
This spring, Detmers was 0-1 with four starts. He had a 5.40 ERA in 11.2 INN. He had 11 strikeouts and eight walks.<\/p>\n
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VS. THE ANGELS:\u00a0The Astros open this season with a divisional series against the Angels, who the Astros went 8-5 against in 13 games last season. The Astros are 138-84 all time against the Angels and have won the season series against them in every full season dating back to 2015.<\/p>\n
Game Info<\/p>\n
Game Date\/Time:\u00a0Saturday, March 28, 6:15 p.m. CST<\/p>\n
Location:\u00a0Daikin Park, Houston, TX<\/p>\n
TV:\u00a0Space City Sports<\/p>\n
Streaming:\u00a0Space City Sports<\/p>\n
Radio:\u00a0KBME 790 AM; TUDN 102.9 FM HD2<\/p>\n
LAMBERT RE-SIGNED:\u00a0The Astros have re-signed\u00a0RHP Peter Lambert\u00a0to a minor league contract and assigned him to Triple A Sugar Land\u2026Lambert had a strong Spring Training as an Astros NRI, posting a 2.92 ERA (4ER\/12.1IP) in five appearances before being granted his release on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
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TODAY\u2019S MEDIA AVAILABILITY:\u00a0The Astros clubhouse will be open to approved media at Daikin Park from 2-2:50 p.m. CT\u2026Astros Manager\u00a0Joe Espada\u00a0will be made available in the Astros dugout at approx. 2:50 p.m.<\/p>\n
Houston Astros Lineup<\/p>\n
2B Jose Altuve<\/p>\n
DH Yordan Alvarez<\/p>\n
3B Isaac Parades<\/p>\n
SS Carlos Correa<\/p>\n
1B Christian Walker<\/p>\n
RF Cam Smith<\/p>\n
C Yainer Diaz<\/p>\n
CF Jake Meyers<\/p>\n
LF Brice Matthews<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Angels Lineup<\/p>\n
SS Zach Neto<\/p>\n
CF Mike Trout<\/p>\n
1B Nolan Schanuel<\/p>\n
DH Jorge Soler<\/p>\n
3B Yoan Moncada<\/p>\n
RF Jo Adell<\/p>\n
LF Josh Lowe<\/p>\n
C Logan O\u2019Hoppe<\/p>\n
2B Oswald Peraza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"he Houston Astros (0-2) continue their opening 4 game series against the Los Angeles Angels (2-0) tonight at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,9027,451,1724,100,6175,4816,139,54,452,2179,3509,817,1777,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,603,4,4953,1841,10195,3923,5355,3511,2264,2052],"class_list":["post-649469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-angels","tag-baseball","tag-brice-matthews","tag-cam-smith","tag-carlos","tag-christian-walker","tag-cristian-javier","tag-daikin-park","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-jake-meyers","tag-jo-adell","tag-jorge-soler","tag-jose-altuve","tag-josh","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-mike-trout","tag-mlb","tag-nolan-schanuel","tag-oswald-peraza","tag-peter-lambert","tag-reid-detmers","tag-yainer-diaz","tag-yoan-moncada","tag-yordan-alvarez","tag-zach-neto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116309389306350869","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649469","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=649469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}