As the MLB regular season nears the end, teams are looking to get back important names who have been out due to injury.

There’s more to Houston with the Chronicle. Subscribe today for just 25¢. Yordan Alvarez, show taking batting practice in May, has resumed hitting off a tee. (Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle) ...

Javier threw three innings and 46 pitches in the outing. Spencer Arrighetti is also set to join Double-A Corpus Christi this week to begin a rehab assignment in his return from a right thumb ...