{"id":663136,"date":"2026-04-04T17:48:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663136\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T17:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:48:28","slug":"astros-winning-streak-ends-despite-milestones-from-javier-and-alvarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663136\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros\u2019 Winning Streak Ends Despite Milestones from Javier and Alvarez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Javier reached 600 career strikeouts, a major milestone for the 29-year-old right-hander. But it wasn\u2019t his best outing. He struggled with command, allowing six earned runs on six hits and five walks over 3 2\/3 innings, taking the loss. He recorded just two strikeouts and threw 44 strikes on 82 pitches, with his season ERA rising to 12.96. Javier said he had trouble gripping the ball, which affected his control, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/cristian-javier-664299\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Javier reached 600 career strikeouts, a major milestone for the 29-year-old right-hander. But it wasn\u2019t his best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,139,54,3211,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-663136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-astros","12":"tag-houstonastros","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116347699950858692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663136","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=663136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}