{"id":658713,"date":"2026-04-02T12:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/658713\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:26:13","slug":"astros-blast-off-during-first-homestand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/658713\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros Blast Off During First Homestand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Astros opened the 2026 regular season with a seven-game homestead against the Los Angeles Angels and Boston Red Sox. After losing the first two games, Houston has gone on a five-game win streak and leads the league in runs scored. The Astros leave for a road trip to take on the A\u2019s, Mariners and Rockies before returning to Daikin Park on April 14th.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpress.com\/author\/jack-gorman\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Gorman__Jackson_Houston-scaled-120x120.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJackson is a freelance photographer and writer covering a variety of music and sporting events in the Houston area. He has contributed to the Houston Press since 2013.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpress.com\/author\/jack-gorman\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Jack Gorman\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Astros opened the 2026 regular season with a seven-game homestead against the Los Angeles Angels and Boston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,42,5,48,53234,54,817,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,603,4,44493],"class_list":{"0":"post-658713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-astros","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-boston-red-sox","12":"tag-homepage","13":"tag-houston-astros","14":"tag-jose-altuve","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-angels","17":"tag-laangels","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-angels","20":"tag-losangeles","21":"tag-losangelesangels","22":"tag-mike-trout","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-slideshow-gallery"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116335109798779980","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658713","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=658713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}