SEATTLE -- The Astros placed shortstop Jeremy Peña on the 10-day injured list prior to Monday’s game against the Mariners with a Grade 1 right hamstring strain and placed right-handed pitcher Tatsuya Imai on the 15-day day IL with right arm fatigue. The club also optioned right-hander Jayden Murray to

SEATTLE -- Just when the Astros thought things couldn’t get any worse regarding the state of their starting pitching rotation, Cody Bolton was removed from Sunday’s 6-1 loss to the Mariners at T-Mobile Park with mid-back tightness after throwing 42 pitches and recording only three outs. Another abbreviated outing by

SEATTLE -- Astros shortstop Jeremy Peña, who left Saturday’s game in the fourth inning with right posterior knee tightness, was out of the lineup for Sunday’s game against the Mariners, along with starting third baseman Carlos Correa, who’s still dealing with a lingering illness from last week in Colorado. Astros

It was Hall of Fame announcer Milo Hamilton who gave infielder Phil Garner the nickname “Scrap Iron” while both were with the Pittsburgh Pirates in the late 1970s. Hamilton saw a young third baseman knocking down balls, always with dirt on his uniform, and noticed that nothing seemed to bother

SEATTLE -- Astros shortstop Jeremy Peña is set to undergo further testing Sunday after leaving Saturday’s 8-7 loss to the Mariners at T-Mobile Park with right posterior knee tightness. Peña was removed from the game in the fourth inning as a precaution. He said he felt the back of his

SEATTLE -- Astros rookie right-hander Tatsuya Imai, who struggled to find the strike zone while recording just one out in Friday’s 9-6 loss to the Mariners, traveled back to Houston on Saturday after experiencing right arm fatigue. There was no indication during or after Friday’s game that Imai may have

This story was excerpted from Brian McTaggart’s Astros Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.

SEATTLE -- If losing their second starting pitcher to a shoulder strain and a stint on the injured list in the span of five days wasn’t enough to push the Astros’ staff into disarray, Tatsuya Imai failing to escape the first inning Friday night at T-Mobile Field may have done

DENVER -- Astros ace Hunter Brown will refrain from throwing for a few weeks after being diagnosed with a grade 2 right shoulder strain, the club announced before Tuesday night's 5-1 loss against the Rockies at Coors Field. Brown was placed on the 15-day injured list for the first time

WEST SACRAMENTO -- Astros second baseman Jose Altuve has turned into an on-base machine in the first 10 games of the season, and he’s still doing things on defense that remind us of why he’s likely headed to the Hall of Fame one day.

WEST SACRAMENTO -- A season after they suffered a series of key injuries in their starting rotation, the Astros were dealt their first major health setback of 2026 when ace right-hander Hunter Brown was placed on the 15-day injured list Sunday with a shoulder strain before their 12-10 walk-off loss

WEST SACRAMENTO -- Seven of the Astros’ first nine hitters in Saturday’s game against the A’s reached base, which provided a glimpse of what kind of day it was going to be at Sutter Health Park. The Astros filled the base paths with traffic the entire game and enjoyed one

WEST SACRAMENTO -- Slowly but surely, Astros pitcher Tatsuya Imai is learning what life in the Major Leagues is all about. He learned Saturday that when you pick up your first career victory, which he did by throwing 5 2/3 scoreless innings in an 11-0 win over the A’s, your

WEST SACRAMENTO -- For his struggles to begin the season, Astros starter Cristian Javier appeared to have lived to fight another inning Friday night when he got Tyler Soderstrom to hit a popup high into the air near the home plate circle with two outs in the fourth.

HOUSTON -- With the way the Astros have been swinging the bats in the first week of the season, they really didn’t need a rallying cry to break out the lumber again Wednesday afternoon. Red Sox starter Garrett Crochet gave them one, anyway.

This story was excerpted from Brian McTaggart’s Astros Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.

HOUSTON -- A strikeout and a walk in one plate appearance is something that’s not supposed to happen in baseball. Fortunately for Astros right fielder Cam Smith, only the walk counted.

HOUSTON -- Who cares that the season is less than a week old? The Astros have turned in must-see baseball with the way they’re bashing the baseball all over Daikin Park en route to scoring at least eight runs in four games in a row for the first time since

HOUSTON -- Lance McCullers Jr. let out a cathartic scream and pumped his arms following his final pitch Monday night. It was the kind of raw emotion we hadn’t seen from the Astros veteran right-hander in quite some time, but it was a perfect reaction for the moment and the

HOUSTON -- Could a player the Astros tried to trade in the offseason and throughout the spring wind up being their most valuable piece in 2026? Isaac Paredes -- who was regarded as the odd man out in the Astros’ clogged infield picture with Carlos Correa at third base, Jeremy

HOUSTON -- Chalk it up to some nerves and perhaps even not yet being able to find the right sleeping and eating patterns in his new surroundings.

HOUSTON -- The reality of an 0-3 start -- and the overreactions that come with it -- were staring the Astros in the face for the first half of Saturday’s game against the Angels, who never trailed Houston in the first two games of the series and had a comfortable

HOUSTON -- The day before he was set to make his first Major League start, Astros pitcher Tatsuya Imai was in the bullpen at Daikin Park on Saturday afternoon and throwing 95 mph heaters.

HOUSTON -- Brice Matthews, ranked by MLB Pipeline as the Astros’ No. 4 prospect, parlayed a strong performance in the Grapefruit League into a spot on Houston's Opening Day roster and made his first career start in the outfield in Friday’s 6-2 loss to the Angels at Daikin Park, with

HOUSTON -- The pitching depth the Astros added in the offseason not only allowed them to stash some experienced arms in Triple-A who have experience starting in the Major Leagues, including Spencer Arrighetti, Colton Gordon and Jason Alexander, but it also gave them the luxury of having three relief pitchers