{"id":685694,"date":"2026-04-29T08:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/685694\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T08:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:27:17","slug":"baltimore-orioles-and-houston-astros-meet-in-game-2-of-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/685694\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Orioles and Houston Astros meet in game 2 of series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Astros<\/a> (11-19, fifth in the AL West) vs. Baltimore Orioles<\/a> (14-15, third in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Baltimore; Wednesday, 6:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: Peter Lambert<\/a> (1-1, 3.27 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 16 strikeouts); Orioles: Chris Bassitt<\/a> (1-2, 6.75 ERA, 2.06 WHIP, 10 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Orioles -120, Astros +100; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Baltimore Orioles lead 1-0 in a three-game series with the Houston Astros.<\/p>\n

Baltimore is 14-15 overall and 8-8 in home games. Orioles hitters are batting a collective .240, which ranks fifth in the AL.<\/p>\n

Houston is 11-19 overall and 3-11 in road games. The Astros have a 6-17 record in games when they have given up a home run.<\/p>\n

The teams match up Wednesday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Taylor Ward<\/a> has a .313 batting average to lead the Orioles, and has 13 doubles and a home run. Samuel Basallo<\/a> is 13 for 33 with three home runs and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Carlos Correa<\/a> has seven doubles, two home runs and 14 RBIs for the Astros. Yordan Alvarez<\/a> is 17 for 43 with three doubles and four home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Orioles: 5-5, .239 batting average, 4.99 ERA, outscored by 10 runs<\/p>\n

Astros: 3-7, .249 batting average, 5.87 ERA, outscored by 15 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Orioles: Dietrich Enns<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), Heston Kjerstad<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Dean Kremer<\/a>: 15-Day IL (quadricep), Felix Bautista<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Colin Selby: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Zach Eflin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Westburg<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ucl), Yaramil Hiraldo: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jackson Holliday<\/a>: 10-Day IL (finger), Ryan Mountcastle: 60-Day IL (foot)<\/p>\n

Astros: Zach Dezenzo: 10-Day IL (elbow), Jeremy Pena<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Taylor Trammell: 10-Day IL (groin), Hunter Brown: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Cristian Javier: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Nate Pearson: 15-Day IL (elbow), Cody Bolton: 15-Day IL (back), Joey Loperfido: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Ronel Blanco<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jake Meyers<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Nick Allen<\/a>: 10-Day IL (back), Tatsuya Imai: 15-Day IL (arm), Josh Hader<\/a>: 60-Day IL (biceps), Hayden Wesneski<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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 (11-19, fifth in the AL West) vs. Baltimore Orioles (14-15, third in the AL East) Baltimore;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,47,5,13576,3225,82,913,12018,75686,584,1432,1752,139,54,3211,1514,452,5828,581,1109,19,4,2270,10195,766,7326,5694,2264],"class_list":{"0":"post-685694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-brandon-walter","12":"tag-carlos-correa","13":"tag-chris-bassitt","14":"tag-dean-kremer","15":"tag-dietrich-enns","16":"tag-event_preview","17":"tag-felix-bautista","18":"tag-hayden-wesneski","19":"tag-heston-kjerstad","20":"tag-houston","21":"tag-houston-astros","22":"tag-houstonastros","23":"tag-jackson-holliday","24":"tag-jake-meyers","25":"tag-jeremy-pena","26":"tag-jordan-westburg","27":"tag-josh-hader","28":"tag-major-league-baseball","29":"tag-mlb","30":"tag-nick-allen","31":"tag-peter-lambert","32":"tag-ronel-blanco","33":"tag-samuel-basallo","34":"tag-taylor-ward","35":"tag-yordan-alvarez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116487051215283375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685694","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=685694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685694\/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=685694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}