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The Houston Astros person mislaid six consecutive games and Carlos Correa was blunt successful his profane appraisal of nan team’s caller play.
The Astros mislaid 6-2 to nan Seattle Mariners connected Monday astatine T-Mobile Park, nan last crippled of a four-game expanse by their American League West rivals. It was their eighth nonaccomplishment successful their past 9 games, and nan skid has dropped them to past successful nan AL West.
"I don’t want to connect our failures to nan injuries. Our failures are because we’re playing s---ty baseball. We’re a bully nine playing bad baseball," Correa said via MLB.com.
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Houston Astros' Carlos Correa reacts aft striking retired during nan 3rd inning against nan Athletics successful West Sacramento, California, connected April 5, 2026. (Sara Nevis/AP Photo)
While Correa won’t connect nan team’s struggles to injuries, nan lineup and pitching unit person been ravaged by them successful nan early going of nan season.
The Astros placed All-Star shortstop Jeremy Peña on nan 10-day injured database pinch a hamstring strain and rookie right-hander Tatsuya Imai connected nan 15-day injured database pinch correct limb fatigue Monday. Since nan commencement of nan season, nan squad has placed starting pitcher Cristian Javier (Grade 2 correct enarthrosis strain), outfielder Jake Meyers (Grade 2 correct oblique strain), Hunter Brown (Grade 2 correct enarthrosis strain) connected nan injured list.
They were already without prima person Josh Hader successful nan bullpen, who was placed connected nan IL astatine nan extremity of March pinch near biceps tendinitis.
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Houston Astros 2nd baseman Jose Altuve and 3rd baseman Carlos Correa watch nan last inning of their nonaccomplishment to nan Athletics astatine Sutter Health Park successful West Sacramento, California, connected April 3, 2026. (D. Ross Cameron/Imagn Images)
Astros head Joe Espada vowed nan squad will conflict done their existent struggles.
"We’ll get done this," Espada said. "But, I’m doing well. I conscionable don’t for illustration erstwhile our players are injured. They activity really difficult successful nan offseason to travel backmost successful shape, and expectations are for america to spell retired location and execute and get backmost to nan postseason, and this makes it reliable to person our guys getting banged up. But, we’ll conflict done this."
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Houston Astros' Carlos Correa flips his bat while rounding nan bases aft hitting a three-run location tally against nan Boston Red Sox successful nan 5th inning successful Houston, Texas, connected April 1, 2026. (Michael Wyke/AP Photo)
Correa, a three-time All-Star, has been 1 of nan fewer Astros players who has been immune to nan team’s early-season struggles, hitting .291 pinch 1 location tally and 9 RBI while playing beardown defense astatine some shortstop and 3rd base.
The Astros (6-11) will look to move things astir erstwhile they play nan Colorado Rockies (6-10) connected Tuesday astatine 8:10 p.m. ET.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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