Astros star Carlos Correa out for the season after tearing ankle tendon during batting practice

One of the biggest losses of the Houston Astros' play occurred during signifier this week.

Star shortstop Carlos Correa injured his ankle portion taking swings successful the batting cage anterior to the Astros’ 2-1 triumph implicit the Los Angeles Dodgers astatine Daikin Park connected Tuesday. The 31-year-old told reporters the pursuing time that helium would necessitate country for a torn tendon successful his near ankle and volition miss the remainder of the season.

Correa said helium felt a "pop" successful his ankle portion swinging. He saw a ft specializer connected Wednesday morning, and said helium apt faces a six-to-eight-month recovery.

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Houston Astros' Carlos Correa reacts aft striking retired during the 3rd inning against the Athletics successful West Sacramento, California, connected April 5, 2026. (Sara Nevis/AP Photo)

"It conscionable wholly snapped connected maine and past I fell to the ground," Correa told reporters, according to ESPN. "I couldn't enactment value connected it. ... Right away, I knew thing was wrong."

The nonaccomplishment of Correa is simply a large stroke to a scuffling Astros team. They are 15-22 connected the season, and Correa had been 1 of their champion bats, hitting .279 with 3 location runs and 16 RBI.

"Very tough," Correa said. "Not what I was expecting, but present it's clip to woody with it, look it caput on, and absorption connected the rehab."

The Astros already had 13 players connected their injured database anterior to Correa’s injury. Correa began the play arsenic the team’s 3rd baseman but shifted to shortstop aft Jeremy Peña landed connected the IL.

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Houston Astros 3rd baseman Carlos Correa warms up earlier the crippled against the Texas Rangers astatine Daikin Park connected Sept. 15, 2025. (Erik Williams/Imagn Images)

After Correa got hurt, the Astros scratched him from the lineup, marking the 2nd consecutive time they had to scratch a hitter owed to a pregame injury. On Monday, the squad had to region catcher Yainer Díaz from the lineup aft helium injured his oblique during practice.

Correa began his vocation with the Astros, spending his archetypal 7 seasons successful Houston earlier departing for the Minnesota Twins successful escaped agency. After 3 and a fractional seasons with the Twins, the Astros reacquired Correa astatine past year’s commercialized deadline.

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Houston Astros' Carlos Correa flips his bat portion rounding the bases aft hitting a three-run location tally against the Boston Red Sox successful the 5th inning successful Houston, Texas, connected April 1, 2026. (Michael Wyke/AP Photo)

Correa volition articulation Peña, ace starting pitcher Hunter Brown, starters Cristian Javier and Tatsuya Imai, person Josh Hader, and halfway fielder Jake Meyers connected the IL for the Astros.

The Astros' adjacent crippled volition travel against the Los Angeles Dodgers (22-14), who volition beryllium playing the rubber lucifer of their three-game bid connected Wednesday astatine 2:10 p.m. ET aft splitting the archetypal 2 games of the series.

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