{"id":124821,"date":"2026-06-30T10:09:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=124821"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:09:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:09:05","slug":"jose-altuve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2026\/06\/30\/jose-altuve\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Altuve Demonstrated This Superhuman Trait in June"},"content":{"rendered":"

When anyone thinks about Jose Altuve<\/a> and who he is, they may say postseason performer for his 23 career home runs in the playoffs, hit machine, one of the best second basemen of this generation, a champion, and humble.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After his recent set of events, Altuve has earned another name. That is Wolverine. Why? It\u2019s because of his incredibly fast healing abilities from injuries. That was proved after his recent Grade 2 oblique strain, sustained on May 16. This was right after the Astros\u2019 brutal stretch of injuries<\/a> at the start of the year that almost drove their season off the rails.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jose Altuve Demonstrated This Superhuman Trait in June<\/h2>\n

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Right when the Astros started to get some wins on their belt, Altuve suddenly was taken out of a game mid-at-bat against the Texas Rangers in the eighth inning with strong discomfort. He couldn\u2019t even swing his bat. This felt quite concerning when it happened, given Carlos Correa was already out<\/a> for the season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Grade 2 oblique strain involves a slight tear of the muscle, and the usual recovery time is between four and six weeks. That\u2019s not the shortest timespan on the injured list, and given how the season had started with injuries, this was not ideal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Most believed that Altuve would be out<\/a> for at least one month and likely wouldn\u2019t return until late June. The good news for the Astros was that even without Altuve, the team started to get on a roll<\/a> towards the end of the month and finished strong.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jose Altuve Was Eager to Get Back<\/h3>\n

While the offense kept the pace up as Jeremy Pe\u00f1a and Jake Meyers returned, it was the starting pitching that came into its own. Even then, Altuve wasn\u2019t going to sit and wait at all. He was already preparing and going through his extremely quick recovery from the injury. In just a week after the injury, Altuve was already doing baseball activities and started to swing the bat in the batting cages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He never even had to go through a rehab assignment in the minor leagues and stayed with the big league team during his incredibly fast recovery. As another week passed, Altuve was remarkably just about getting to return.\u00a0 <\/span>Getting the swing back up to 100 percent is key for any oblique injury. Even though this was a Grade 2, Altuve was swinging like normal in just two weeks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jose Altuve\u2019s Speedy Recovery History<\/h3>\n

Even at 36 years old in his 16th major league season, Altuve\u2019s recovery is beyond fast. It\u2019s superhuman-like. This isn\u2019t a new phenomenon. Altuve has generally been a fast healer throughout his career. He also suffered an oblique injury in 2023 and returned well before the initial timeline. It\u2019s a great sign for the Astros. Altuve missed just two and a half weeks and made his return on June 5 against the Athletics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What He\u2019s Done Since<\/h3>\n

He got a hit in his first game back and then announced to everyone that he was completely back with a home run on June 6. Altuve then had back-to-back games with a homer, none more important than the one he hit on June 13th in Kansas City. Down 7-5 in the eighth inning, Altuve launched a clutch two-run bomb that tied the game. The Astros eventually won 8-7.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Altuve has rotated throughout the lineup, sometimes hitting leadoff or in the middle of the lineup around fifth. He also had a big game with two hits and a homer against Cleveland on June 19. While Altuve has 17 hits in 21 games, his numbers are low overall as of June 29,\u00a0with a .654 OPS and .215 AVG. Either way, he\u2019s still a very vital part of the lineup, and his veteran experience can always deliver in the biggest moments. Altuve is still the heart and soul of this team.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Main Photo Credits: Erik Williams-Imagn Images<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When anyone thinks about Jose Altuve and who he is, they may say postseason performer for his 23 career home runs in the playoffs, hit machine, one of the best second basemen of this generation, a champion, and humble.\u00a0 After his recent set of events, Altuve has earned another name. That is Wolverine. Why? It\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5612,"featured_media":124829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1071],"tags":[251],"class_list":["post-124821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astros","category-mlb","tag-jose-altuve"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124831,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124821\/revisions\/124831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}