{"id":663553,"date":"2026-04-04T22:47:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663553\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T22:47:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:47:52","slug":"athletics-play-the-astros-with-1-0-series-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663553\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics play the Astros with 1-0 series lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Astros<\/a> (5-3) vs. Athletics<\/a> (2-5)<\/p>\n

West Sacramento, California; Saturday, 4:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: Tatsuya Imai (0-0, 13.50 ERA, 2.62 WHIP, four strikeouts); Athletics: Luis Morales<\/a> (0-1, 10.38 ERA, 1.61 WHIP, five strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Astros -110, Athletics -109; over\/under is 10 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics bring a 1-0 advantage into the next game of the series against the Houston Astros.<\/p>\n

The Athletics went 76-86 overall and 36-45 at home last season. The Athletics averaged 8.7 hits per game last season and totaled 219 home runs.<\/p>\n

Houston went 87-75 overall and 41-40 on the road a season ago. The Astros slugged .399 with a .714 OPS as a team 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 (5-3) vs. Athletics (2-5) West Sacramento, California; Saturday, 4:05 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: Tatsuya Imai…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,3616,13576,11192,75686,1432,54,1109,19,4,3226,766],"class_list":{"0":"post-663553","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-enyel-de-los-santos","13":"tag-event_preview","14":"tag-hayden-wesneski","15":"tag-houston-astros","16":"tag-josh-hader","17":"tag-major-league-baseball","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-mlb-athletics","20":"tag-ronel-blanco"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116348879142681908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663553","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=663553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663553\/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=663553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}