{"id":671685,"date":"2026-04-09T14:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/671685\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:36:22","slug":"joe-espada-makes-hard-confession-about-2-players-getting-hurt-within-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/671685\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Espada makes &#8216;hard&#8217; confession about 2 players getting hurt within minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/houston-astros\/astros-news-josh-hader-houston-injury-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Astros got dealt another tough injury blow<\/a> on Wednesday, when two players got hurt within minutes during a game. Jake Meyers and Cristian Javier both left during Houston&#8217;s game with the Colorado Rockies. Astros manager <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/joe-espada\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Espada<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48432301\/astros-watch-jake-meyers-cristian-javier-exit-injuries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">gave a brutal admission<\/a> after the contest about the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot what I want to see. It&#8217;s hard, hard, hard,\u201d Espada said of the injuries, per the Associated Press. \u201cGot to flush this and get ready to play ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meyers tweaked his back while getting ready to take a batting appearance at the plate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTook a swing, thought I was good to go,\u201d Meyers said after the game. \u201cTook a harder take and it tightened it up more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Javier, a pitcher, left soon after due to shoulder issues. He only lasted one inning in the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI trust these guys,\u201d Espada said. \u201cThey know how to do it. The injuries piled on. Not a good feeling. If there&#8217;s a team that knows how to bounce back, it&#8217;s this group in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Astros ended up losing the game to the Rockies, 9-1. Houston fell to 6-7 on the season, following the loss. Colorado ended up sweeping a three-game series with the Astros.<\/p>\n<p>Astros struggled against the Rockies<\/p>\n<p>Houston has high expectations in 2026 to make a deep run in the Major League Baseball Playoffs. The club <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/colorado-rockies\/rockies-news-colorado-shocks-fans-by-accomplishing-feat-not-seen-since-2022\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">got beat soundly though in their series against the rebuilding Rockies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Espada is hoping his club can bounce back from this brutal series. Houston scored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/cristian-javier-jake-meyers-exit-early-with-injuries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">just two total runs<\/a> in the final two games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s complicated,\u201d Javier said, per MLB.com. \u201cI\u2019m very disappointed. It\u2019s something where we lost the last two games against the Rockies and the bullpen was used a lot. So I felt like the team needed me out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Houston hopes to get back in the win column, when they next play the Seattle Mariners on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Astros got dealt another tough injury blow on Wednesday, when two players got hurt within minutes during a game.  Jake Meyers and Cristian Javier both left during Houston&#8217;s game with the Colorado Rockies.  Astros manager Joe Espada gave a brutal admission after the contest about the situation.  \u201cNot what I want to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Astros got dealt another tough injury blow on Wednesday, when two players got hurt within minutes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,139,54,3211,5918,4,3410],"class_list":{"0":"post-671685","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-joe-espada","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-mlb-injury"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116375256015728830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671685","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=671685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}