{"id":667124,"date":"2026-04-06T21:57:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667124\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T21:57:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:57:01","slug":"astros-series-opener-vs-rockies-preview-storylines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667124\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros’ Series Opener vs. Rockies: Preview, Storylines"},"content":{"rendered":"

After beginning the season 5-2, the Houston Astros hit the road for their first road trip of the 2026 season over the weekend. They began their 10-game road trip in Sacramento against the Athletics and dropped two of the three games. The Astros dropped the rubber game on Sunday in 10 innings, 12-10.<\/p>\n

Before Sunday’s loss, Houston got some injury news that they don’t need early in the season. They placed ace right-hander Hunter Brown on the 15-day injured list<\/a>. That is a big blow to a rotation that is still trying to get its feet on the ground early in the season after losing Framber Valdez in free agency to the Detroit Tigers over the winter.<\/p>\n

After three games in Denver<\/a>, the Astros will have a four-game series in Seattle against the Mariners over the weekend, which makes this series against the Rockies a must-win. Here is how you can watch, and the projected starting pitching matchup for Monday night’s game.<\/p>\n

How to Watch Houston Astros vs. Athletics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After beginning the season 5-2, the Houston Astros hit the road for their first road trip of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,139,54,3211,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-667124","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\/116360003272112766","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667124","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=667124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}