{"id":702662,"date":"2026-05-19T00:48:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T00:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/702662\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T00:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T00:48:35","slug":"game-48-astros-at-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/702662\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 48: Astros at Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"

After fracturing his ankle in batting practice, Carlos Correa does not make his big return, but he\u2019ll be felt in spirit. We\u2019ll have to settle for Christian Vazquez<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n

Today was originally Simeon Woods Richardson\u2019s turn through the rotation, but after a disastrous start to the season, manager Derek Shelton will go with rookie Kendry Rojas<\/a> on the mound and then \u201cwe\u2019ll see\u201d after that, which will likely include some amount of SWR. This rotation slot is likely a placeholder until Taj Bradley<\/a> makes his return later this week.<\/p>\n

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Byron Buxton<\/a>, meanwhile, misses his fourth straight game with a hip issue though he is reportedly \u201cvery close\u201d to returning. I would complain about not just putting him the IL to have another bench player, but with Alan Roden<\/a>, Emmanuel Rodriguez, and Walker Jenkins all hurt and Matt Wallner<\/a> just demoted, the St. Paul depth is pretty thin for the time being.<\/p>\n

Lineups!<\/p>\n

Twins<\/p>\n

Astros<\/p>\n

SP: Kendry Rojas (LHP)<\/p>\n

SP: Tatsuya Imai<\/a><\/p>\n

1. Austin Martin<\/a>, RF<\/p>\n

1. Jeremy Pe\u00f1a<\/a>, SS<\/p>\n

2. Trevor Larnach<\/a>, LF<\/p>\n

2. Isaac Paredes<\/a>, 3B<\/p>\n

3. Ryan Jeffers<\/a>, C<\/p>\n

3. Yordan Alvarez<\/a>, DH<\/p>\n

4. Kody Clemens<\/a>, 1B<\/p>\n

4. Christian Walker<\/a>, 1B<\/p>\n

5. Josh Bell<\/a>, DH<\/p>\n

5. Zach Dezenzo<\/a>, LF<\/p>\n

6. Luke Keaschall<\/a>, 2B<\/p>\n

6. Braden Shewmake<\/a>, 2B<\/p>\n

7. Brooks Lee<\/a>, SS<\/p>\n

7. Brice Matthews<\/a>, CF<\/p>\n

8. Tristan Gray<\/a>, 3B<\/p>\n

8. Cam Smith<\/a>, RF<\/p>\n

9. James Outman<\/a>, CF<\/p>\n

9. Christian Vazquez, C<\/p>\n

Edit: sorry for the late thread everyone! Got my timezones mixed up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After fracturing his ankle in batting practice, Carlos Correa does not make his big return, but he\u2019ll be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[5899,42,4992,5,27690,9027,1391,2223,451,3225,1250,100,1728,139,54,3211,893,4571,5828,3541,26513,461,57,413,1251,4,1252,763,4658,3477,30756,2264,453],"class_list":["post-702662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-astros","tag-alan-roden","tag-astros","tag-austin-martin","tag-baseball","tag-braden-shewmake","tag-brice-matthews","tag-brooks-lee","tag-byron-buxton","tag-cam-smith","tag-carlos-correa","tag-christian-vazquez","tag-christian-walker","tag-derek-shelton","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","tag-isaac-paredes","tag-james-outman","tag-jeremy-pena","tag-josh-bell","tag-kendry-rojas","tag-kody-clemens","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-luke-keaschall","tag-matt-wallner","tag-mlb","tag-ryan-jeffers","tag-taj-bradley","tag-tatsuya-imai","tag-trevor-larnach","tag-tristan-gray","tag-yordan-alvarez","tag-zach-dezenzo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116598492652109097","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702662","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=702662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}