{"id":674040,"date":"2026-04-12T11:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/674040\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T11:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:27:16","slug":"astros-shortstop-jeremy-pena-exits-game-against-mariners-with-right-knee-tightness-pro-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/674040\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros shortstop Jeremy Pe\u00f1a exits game against Mariners with right knee tightness | Pro National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Houston Astros shortstop Jeremy Pe\u00f1a left Saturday night&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/astros-mariners-score-crawford-raleigh-rodriguez-92b10d0a692a62315d5fad2b3b441050\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">8-7 loss to the Seattle Mariners<\/a> in the fourth inning because of right posterior knee tightness.<\/p>\n<p>Pe\u00f1a exited the game as a precaution and will get imaging done Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just felt the back of my knee tightening up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pe\u00f1a singled off starter Luis Castillo in the fourth, advanced to second on Yordan Alvarez&#8217;s flyout and went to third on an RBI single by Isaac Paredes.<\/p>\n<p>As the Mariners made a pitching change, pinch-runner Nick Allen replaced Pe\u00f1a at third.<\/p>\n<p>Pe\u00f1a said his knee tightened up during Houston&#8217;s 9-6 loss on Friday, but he finished the game. He went 1 for 5 with a run scored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn&#8217;t tell anybody, which I probably should have,\u201d he said. &#8220;I woke up today feeling really good, went into the game feeling really good. And then it tightened up on me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it&#8217;s best to stay on top of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pe\u00f1a is batting .256 with five runs scored this season. He was the World Series MVP and American League Championship Series MVP as a rookie in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Pe\u00f1a made his first All-Star team last year, when he batted .304 with 17 home runs, 62 RBIs, 20 stolen bases and an .840 OPS in 125 games.<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Houston Astros shortstop Jeremy Pe\u00f1a left Saturday night&#8217;s 8-7 loss to the Seattle Mariners in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,620,4,62684,62685,619,65,3235,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-674040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-mariners","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mariners","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-pro_national_sports","12":"tag-pronational_sports","13":"tag-seattle","14":"tag-seattle-mariners","15":"tag-seattlemariners","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116391500080879773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674040","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=674040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}