{"id":32079,"date":"2025-09-06T18:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/astros-activate-jake-meyers-after-injury-key-reinforcement-in-cf\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:18:16","slug":"astros-activate-jake-meyers-after-injury-key-reinforcement-in-cf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/astros-activate-jake-meyers-after-injury-key-reinforcement-in-cf\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros Activate Jake Meyers After Injury: Key Reinforcement in CF"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Jake Meyers Returns to Action with the Astros<\/h2>\n\nThe Houston Astros have activated Jake Meyers from the injured list ahead of Saturday&#8217;s game against Texas, marking the return of the center fielder after nearly two months out of action due to a calf injury.\n\nMeyers hadn&#8217;t played since July 9, when the aggravation of a right calf strain forced him to leave Houston&#8217;s game against Cleveland before the first pitch was thrown.\n\nThe 29-year-old player exhibits a batting average of .308, with three home runs and 21 RBIs.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cAdding Jake, his defense and his offensive production that he has shown this year, stretches our lineup a little more. We are excited to have him back,\u201d said Astros manager Joe Espada before Saturday&#8217;s game.<\/p><cite>Joe Espada, Astros Manager<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nMeyers, who has batted in the seventh spot in the lineup most often this season, was placed ninth in Espada&#8217;s lineup on Saturday.\n\nEspada indicated that Meyers&#8217; situation will be evaluated &#8220;day by day&#8221;.\n\nThe Astros (77-65) have had a 22-28 record since Meyers was sidelined. Entering Saturday, they led the American League West Division by 3.5 games over Seattle.\n\nIn addition, Houston called up right-handed pitcher Logan Vanwey from Triple-A Sugar Land and sent left-handed pitcher Colton Gordon and outfielder Jacob Melton to Sugar Land.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Meyers Returns to Action with the Astros The Houston Astros have activated Jake Meyers from the injured list ahead of Saturday&#8217;s game against Texas, marking the return of the center fielder after nearly two months out of action due to a calf injury. Meyers hadn&#8217;t played since July 9, when the aggravation of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[91,290,8383,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-32079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-injury","10":"tag-jake-meyers","11":"tag-mlb"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}