TONIGHT\u2019S GAME: With just eight games remaining on their schedule, the first-place Houston Astros will welcome in the Atlanta Braves for their final home series of the 2026 regular season.<\/p>\n
RHP Hayden Wesneski (5-2, 3.70 ERA) will make his penultimate start of the season for the Astros tonight opposite RHP Grant Holmes (9-5, 3.49 ERA) and the Braves.<\/p>\n
THE POSTSEASON CHASE: The Astros and Rangers are locked in a tight race down the stretch for the AL West with the two teams entering play today deadlocked at 77-77. The Astros own the tiebreaker over the Rangers with a season series victory (9-4 record).<\/p>\n
1. Houston: 77-77 vs. ATL (90-64)<\/p>\n
2. Texas: 77-77 vs. TOR (76-78)<\/p>\n
3. Seattle: 72-82 5.0 GB at COL (56-98)<\/p>\n
The Astros have hit 206 homers as a team this year and have hit 200-plus homers in a single season for the 10th time in franchise history (last, 222 HR in 2023)\u2026the Astros rank second in the AL in home runs this season behind only the Yankees (209).<\/p>\n
LHP Josh Hader has converted 26 consecutive save opportunities to open his season, which is the Astros club record\u2026should Hader finish the season without a blown save, he would become the seventh pitcher in MLB history to post 26-plus saves without a blown save and the first to do so since RHP Ken Giles in 2018 (26 SV).<\/p>\n
The Houston Astros have reinstated OF\/IF Brice Mathews from the injured list and have designated OF Jorge Barrosa for assignment.<\/p>\n
Game Date\/Time: Saturday, September 19, 6:10 p.m. CT<\/p>\n
Location: Daikin Park, Houston, TX<\/p>\n
TV: SCHN, SCHN2 (Spanish), Peacock (subject to blackout)<\/p>\n
Radio: KBME 790 AM & 94.5 FM HD2; TUDN 102.9 FM HD2 (Spanish), ESPN Radio (subject to blackout)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TONIGHT\u2019S GAME: With just eight games remaining on their schedule, the first-place Houston Astros will welcome in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,192,67679,4],"class_list":["post-809376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlantabraves","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-houston-astros-game-information","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117300489365262620","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809376","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=809376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}