he Houston Astros (5-2) travel to the Athletics (1-5) tonight In Sacrament0 in the first game of a three game series.<\/p>\n
Astros game three starterRHP Cristian Javier\u00a0will make his second start of the season for the Astros, this time opposite\u00a0LHP Jeffrey Springs\u00a0and the Athletics.<\/p>\n
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Friday\u2019S TILT:\u00a0The Astros and Athletics will play the first game of their three-game series tonight as Houston goes for their sixth straight win.<\/p>\n
ON THE HUNT:\u00a0RHP Cristian Javier is making his second start of the season after getting knocked around in 4.2 innings in game three. He carries am 11.57 ERA with one strikeout and four walks.<\/p>\n
Javier came back in August of last season following Tommy John surgery. He finished 2-4 on the season with a 4.62 ERA in 37.0 innings. He added 34 strikeouts and 15 walks in those innings.<\/p>\n
ASTROS VS. Springs:\u00a0The Astros are squaring off against Springs for the fifth time in his young career. He is 3-0 with a 3.55 ERA and ten strikeouts against the Astros. Springs comes in with a 0-0 record and 3.38 ERA after his first start.<\/p>\n
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RIVALRY VS. THE ATHLETICS:\u00a0The Astros and Athletics have squared off 182 times in their history. They have a 101-81 against the Athletics in their lifetime. However, the Athletics were 8-5 against the Astros in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
TODAY\u2019S ROSTER MOVE: The Astros have placed IF Isaac Paredes on the Bereavement Leave\u2026to take his place on the active roster, Houston has recalled IF Shay Whitcomb.<\/p>\n
Game Info<\/p>\n
Game Date\/Time:\u00a0Friday, April 3, 8:40 p.m. CST<\/p>\n
Location:\u00a0Sutter Health Park, Sacramento, CA<\/p>\n
TV:\u00a0Space City Home Network2<\/p>\n
Streaming:\u00a0SCHN2<\/p>\n
Radio:\u00a0KBME 790 AM; TUDN 102.9 FM HD2 (Spanish)<\/p>\n
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Astros Lineup<\/p>\n
SS Jeremy Pena<\/p>\n
DH Yordan Alvarez<\/p>\n
2B Jose Altuve<\/p>\n
3B Carlos Correa<\/p>\n
1B Christian Walker<\/p>\n
RF Cam Smith<\/p>\n
CF Jake Meyers<\/p>\n
C Yainer Diaz<\/p>\n
LF Brice Matthews<\/p>\n
Athletics Lineup<\/p>\n
1B Nick Kurtz<\/p>\n
C Shea Langeliers<\/p>\n
LF Tyler Soderstrom<\/p>\n
DH Brent Rooker<\/p>\n
SS Jacob Wilson<\/p>\n
RF Lawrence Butler<\/p>\n
3B Max Muncy<\/p>\n
2B Jeff McNeil<\/p>\n
CF Denzel Clarke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"he Houston Astros (5-2) travel to the Athletics (1-5) tonight In Sacrament0 in the first game of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,79198,537,5,545,9027,451,3225,100,6175,14905,139,54,3211,893,6283,452,1332,5828,817,4810,1532,4,459,18482,3442,3955,1949,544,5355,2264],"class_list":{"0":"post-662579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-astros-lineup","10":"tag-athletics","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-brent-rooker","13":"tag-brice-matthews","14":"tag-cam-smith","15":"tag-carlos-correa","16":"tag-christian-walker","17":"tag-cristian-javier","18":"tag-denzel-clarke","19":"tag-houston","20":"tag-houston-astros","21":"tag-houstonastros","22":"tag-isaac-paredes","23":"tag-jacob","24":"tag-jake-meyers","25":"tag-jeff-mcneil","26":"tag-jeremy-pena","27":"tag-jose-altuve","28":"tag-lawrence-butler","29":"tag-max-muncy","30":"tag-mlb","31":"tag-nick-kurtz","32":"tag-shay-whitcomb","33":"tag-shea-langeliers","34":"tag-springs","35":"tag-the-athletics","36":"tag-tyler-soderstrom","37":"tag-yainer-diaz","38":"tag-yordan-alvarez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116346149261659212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662579","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=662579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}