{"id":693495,"date":"2026-05-08T11:39:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/693495\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:39:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:39:26","slug":"astros-visit-the-reds-to-start-3-game-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/693495\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros visit the Reds to start 3-game series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Astros<\/a> (15-23, fifth in the AL West) vs. Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (20-18, fifth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Cincinnati; Friday, 6:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: Mike Burrows<\/a> (1-4, 5.97 ERA, 1.65 WHIP, 36 strikeouts); Reds: Nick Lodolo<\/a> (0-0)<\/p>\n

LINE: Reds -136, Astros +114; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cincinnati Reds host the Houston Astros on Friday to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati is 20-18 overall and 10-8 in home games. The Reds have an 11-5 record in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

Houston has a 6-13 record in road games and a 15-23 record overall. The Astros have the third-best team batting average in MLB<\/a> play at .261.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game is the first time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Elly De La Cruz<\/a> has seven doubles, 10 home runs and 28 RBIs while hitting .265 for the Reds. Spencer Steer<\/a> is 12 for 34 with a double and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Christian Walker has nine doubles, nine home runs and 27 RBIs while hitting .307 for the Astros. Isaac Paredes<\/a> is 13 for 35 with two doubles and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Reds: 2-8, .236 batting average, 7.06 ERA, outscored by 31 runs<\/p>\n

Astros: 5-5, .266 batting average, 5.22 ERA, outscored by 11 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Reds: Eugenio Suarez: 10-Day IL (oblique), Rhett Lowder: day-to-day (shoulder), Brandon Williamson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Emilio Pagan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Caleb Ferguson: 15-Day IL (oblique), Nick Lodolo: 15-Day IL (finger), Hunter Greene<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Astros: Carlos Correa<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Yainer Diaz: 10-Day IL (abdominal), Joey Loperfido: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Jake Meyers<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Nate Pearson: 15-Day IL (elbow), Taylor Trammell: 10-Day IL (groin), Tatsuya Imai: 15-Day IL (arm), Jeremy Pena<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Hunter Brown: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Cristian Javier: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ronel Blanco<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), 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 (15-23, fifth in the AL West) vs. Cincinnati Reds (20-18, fifth in the NL Central) Cincinnati;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,13576,12054,3225,535,50,4259,1177,1105,75686,1432,54,2102,893,452,5828,1109,19,363,4,1331,536,766,6288],"class_list":["post-693495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-cincinnati-reds","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-walter","tag-brandon-williamson","tag-carlos-correa","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cincinnatireds","tag-elly-de-la-cruz","tag-emilio-pagan","tag-event_preview","tag-hayden-wesneski","tag-houston-astros","tag-hunter-greene","tag-isaac-paredes","tag-jake-meyers","tag-jeremy-pena","tag-josh-hader","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mike-burrows","tag-mlb","tag-nick-lodolo","tag-reds","tag-ronel-blanco","tag-spencer-steer"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116538767007112305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693495","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=693495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}