{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_olb7csshuyq3o4sbf34a","title":"Who is AJ Blubaugh? Why Astros Starting Pitcher is Reliever vs. White Sox","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/who-is-aj-blubaugh-why-astros-starting-pitcher-is-reliever-vs-white-sox-olb7csshuy","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_olb7csshuyq3o4sbf34a","seq":717449,"kind":"article","title":"Who is AJ Blubaugh? Why Astros Starting Pitcher is Reliever vs. White Sox","url":"https://heavy.com/sports/mlb/houston-astros/who-is-aj-blubaugh-why-astros-starting-pitcher-reliever-white-sox","summary":"The Houston Astros‘ starting pitcher for their playoff opener on Tuesday is the guy who threw the most innings out of the bullpen as a reliever this season across all of MLB. His name is AJ Blubaugh, and it’ll be up to him to set a great tone for the Astros in their Wild Card […] The post Who is AJ Blubaugh? Why Astros Starting Pitcher is Reliever vs. White Sox appeared first on HEAVY .","published":"2026-09-29T15:23:58Z","seen":"2026-09-29T16:20:43Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-heavy-com-208521","name":"heavy.com","domain":"heavy.com","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q17022059","name":"heavy.com","type":"website","designations":["website"]}},"via":"kite-heavy-com-208521","topics":["mlb","heavy on astros"],"authors":["Billy Heyen"],"entities":[{"id":"Q134289439","name":"AJ Blubaugh","type":"person"},{"id":"Q752163","name":"Astros","type":"org"},{"id":"Q335169","name":"Chicago White Sox","type":"org"}],"image":"https://heavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-2293391938.jpg?quality=65&strip=all","story":"st_olb7csshuyq3o4sbf34a","category":"sport","category_p":0.8799999952316284,"sentiment":"neutral","tone":0.019999999552965164,"political":0.009999999776482582}]}