{"id":660601,"date":"2026-04-03T10:21:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/660601\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:21:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:21:43","slug":"astros-seek-to-prolong-win-streak-play-the-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/660601\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros seek to prolong win streak, play the Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Astros<\/a> (5-2) vs. Athletics<\/a> (1-5)<\/p>\n

West Sacramento, California; Friday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: Cristian Javier<\/a> (0-0, 11.57 ERA, 1.71 WHIP, one strikeout); Athletics: Jeffrey Springs (0-0, 3.38 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, two strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Astros -117, Athletics -102; over\/under is 10 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Houston Astros will try to build upon a five-game win streak with a victory against the Athletics.<\/p>\n

The Athletics went 76-86 overall and 36-45 at home last season. The Athletics slugged .431 with a .318 on-base percentage as a team in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

Houston went 87-75 overall and 41-40 on the road last season. The Astros pitching staff averaged 9.4 strikeouts per nine innings while giving up 4.1 runs per game in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Athletics: Gunnar Hoglund: 15-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

Astros: Hayden Wesneski<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Nate Pearson: 15-Day IL (elbow), Zach Dezenzo: 10-Day IL (elbow), Ronel Blanco<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Bennett Sousa<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Enyel De Los Santos<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Josh Hader<\/a>: 15-Day IL (biceps)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Astros (5-2) vs. Athletics (1-5) West Sacramento, California; Friday, 9:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: Cristian Javier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,3616,13576,6175,11192,75686,1432,54,1109,19,4,3226,766],"class_list":{"0":"post-660601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-bennett-sousa","11":"tag-brandon-walter","12":"tag-cristian-javier","13":"tag-enyel-de-los-santos","14":"tag-event_preview","15":"tag-hayden-wesneski","16":"tag-houston-astros","17":"tag-josh-hader","18":"tag-major-league-baseball","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-mlb-athletics","21":"tag-ronel-blanco"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116340279956518993","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660601","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=660601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}