{"id":666556,"date":"2026-04-06T15:25:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666556\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:25:17","slug":"astros-turn-to-cody-bolton-for-spot-start-with-brown-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666556\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros Turn to Cody Bolton for Spot Start with Brown Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Houston Astros announced that Cody Bolton will make the start for them tonight against the Colorado Rockies in Denver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The 28-year old journeyman made his first appearance for the Astros on March 31, picking up a 3 inning save against the Boston Red Sox. It was Bolton\u2019s first career save.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Now he will get his first career start as a member of the Astros as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Prior to this season, Bolton had made 34 career appearances over three seasons, playing for the Cleveland Guardians, Seattle Mariners, and Pittsburgh Pirates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Walks and long balls have been Bolton\u2019s Achilles\u2019 heel. He allowed 6 home runs and 24 walks in 42 innings spanning 33 appearances prior to this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He was solid in his 3 inning outing against Boston, his first appearance as an Astro. In his 3 innings, he allowed 1 run on one hit (a solo HR), struck out 5 and did not walk a batter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ryan Weiss and Kai-Wei Teng are candidates to follow him in the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Astros announced that Cody Bolton will make the start for them tonight against the Colorado Rockies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,48,51,1269,52,139,54,3211,37588,4,64,62395,65,1548],"class_list":{"0":"post-666556","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-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-cleveland-guardians","12":"tag-cody-bolton","13":"tag-colorado-rockies","14":"tag-houston","15":"tag-houston-astros","16":"tag-houstonastros","17":"tag-kai-wei-teng","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","20":"tag-ryan-weiss","21":"tag-seattle-mariners","22":"tag-seventh-inning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116358462234680648","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666556","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=666556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}