{"id":758336,"date":"2026-07-22T08:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T08:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/758336\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T08:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T08:45:18","slug":"marlins-face-the-astros-looking-to-break-road-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/758336\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins face the Astros looking to break road slide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Marlins<\/a> (52-50, third in the NL East) vs. Houston Astros<\/a> (49-54, third in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Houston; Wednesday, 8:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Marlins: Sandy Alcantara<\/a> (10-5, 3.89 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 107 strikeouts); Astros: Peter Lambert<\/a> (8-5, 3.03 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 91 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Astros -122, Marlins +100; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Miami Marlins visit the Houston Astros looking to end a five-game road losing streak.<\/p>\n

Houston is 49-54 overall and 25-27 at home. Astros hitters have a collective .315 on-base percentage, the 10th-ranked percentage in the AL.<\/p>\n

Miami is 21-30 on the road and 52-50 overall. The Marlins are 40-17 in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the third time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Yordan Alvarez<\/a> leads the Astros with 33 home runs while slugging .649. Jose Altuve<\/a> is 9 for 42 with three home runs and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Liam Hicks<\/a> has nine doubles, a triple, 14 home runs and 60 RBIs while hitting .285 for the Marlins. Griffin Conine<\/a> is 11 for 29 with two doubles and four home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Astros: 4-6, .236 batting average, 4.55 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n

Marlins: 2-8, .229 batting average, 3.86 ERA, outscored by 11 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Astros: Brice Matthews: 10-Day IL (knee), Mike Burrows<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Correa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Hayden Wesneski<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Marlins: Max Meyer<\/a>: 15-Day IL (neck), Robby Snelling: 60-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Bender<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shin), William Kempner<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), John King: 15-Day IL (ankle), Owen Caissie<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Josh Ekness: 60-Day IL (calf), Andrew Nardi<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Ronny Henriquez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Adam Mazur<\/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":"Miami Marlins (52-50, third in the NL East) vs. Houston Astros (49-54, third in the AL West) Houston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[24644,8217,1114,42,5,13576,3225,75686,547,1432,139,54,3211,817,7728,19,1714,58,363,4,9677,10195,7729,3480,40190,2264],"class_list":["post-758336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-astros","tag-adam-mazur","tag-andrew-nardi","tag-anthony-bender","tag-astros","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-walter","tag-carlos-correa","tag-event_preview","tag-griffin-conine","tag-hayden-wesneski","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","tag-jose-altuve","tag-liam-hicks","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-meyer","tag-miami-marlins","tag-mike-burrows","tag-mlb","tag-owen-caissie","tag-peter-lambert","tag-ronny-henriquez","tag-sandy-alcantara","tag-william-kempner","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116962756127442539","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758336","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=758336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}