Hayden Wesneski Starts Same Astros Rehab Path Set by Ronel Blanco
Hayden Wesneski Starts Same Astros Rehab Path Set by Ronel Blanco
The Houston Astros have started the rehab clock on another starting pitcher that is coming off Tommy John surgery. Matt Postins|
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Houston AstrosWhen the Houston Astros started Ronel Blanco on his injury rehab stretch, they sent him to Florida. Turns out they did the same for Hayden Wesneski.
The starting pitcher, one of a few Astros have been rehabbing elbow injuries in the background of this season, threw a rehab game in the Florida State League on Tuesday and he threw well. He went three innings, giving up one hit and striking out one. The MiLB box score didn’t keep a pitch count, but he faced 10 hitters.
This should be the first of several starts for the right-hander as he works to come back from Tommy John surgery.
Hayden Wesneski’s Path Back

Wesneski is a couple of weeks behind Blanco, who suffered the same injury and had a similar reconstructive surgery on his UCL. He’s made two starts so far, the first of which was in the FSL on June 19, where he pitched three innings. He followed that up with a start at Double-A Corpus Christi on June 25 as he threw 3.1 innings. In two starts he has thrown 6.1 innings and allowed three hits, three walks and seven strikeouts. He hasn’t given up a run.
His next rehab game should be coming up later this week, if the Astros are keeping him to one start per week.
Wesneski should follow the same path. If he does, his next rehab start should come early next week at a higher affiliate, perhaps Double-A Corpus Christi. The Hooks are home on July 7 against Frisco, the Texas Rangers’ Double-A affiliate.
The Astros will likely try to build Wesneski up like Blanco, having him as close to 75 pitches as possible before a potential activation. The return of Hunter Brown and the impending return of Cristian Javier means the Astros can give both plenty of runway to make a return sometime after the All-Star break.
The Astros acquired Wesneski as part of the Kyle Tucker trade last year. Houston also received Cam Smith and Isaac Paredes from the Chicago Cubs, which means he’s the player the Astros have received the least return from.
He started six games for the Astros last season and went 1-3 with a 4.50 ERA with 29 strikeouts and six walks in 32 innings.
Before that, he spent three seasons with the Cubs in the Majors, mostly in relief. He went 9-13 with a 3.93 ERA in 68 games with 22 starts, as he struck out 183 and walked 60 in 190 innings.
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MATT POSTINSMatthew Postins is an award-winning sports journalist who covers Major League Baseball for OnSI. He also covers the Big 12 Conference for Heartland College Sports.
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14 House Republicans vote down procedural rule over 'SAVE America Act,' halting week's legislative calendar

OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
4:00 PM – Tuesday, June 30, 2026
A coalition of fourteen House Republicans paralyzed the legislative floor on Tuesday, tanking a procedural vote and forcing GOP leadership to abruptly scrap the week’s legislative calendar.
The coalition, led by Representatives Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas), choked off legislative business as conservative holdouts dug in on demands for stricter federal voting regulations — specifically targeting the passage of the SAVE America Act.
The full list of the 14 Republicans includes:
- Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) — Coalition co-leader
- Chip Roy (R-Texas) — Coalition co-leader
- Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.)
- Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.)
- Eric Burlison (R-Mo.)
- Eli Crane (R-Ariz.)
- Randy Fine (R-Fla.)
- Andy Harris (R-Md. )
- Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)
- Max Miller (R-Ohio)
- Keith Self (R-Texas)
- Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.)
- Mike Turner (R-Ohio)
- Steve Scalise (R-La.) — Voted “no” strictly for procedural routing
The immediate casualty of the intraparty disagreement was a $1.15 trillion defense spending bill. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) had engineered a plan to merge the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) with the SAVE America Act, packaging the conservative voting priorities into a must-pass piece of legislation before sending it to the upper chamber.
However, the faction rebelled against this strategy, sinking the routine procedural rule vote 224–198.
Luna described the leadership’s legislative bundling as a “procedural head fake,” arguing that merging the bills would make it far too easy for the Senate to simply strip the election provisions out during conference negotiations.
Instead, Luna and like-minded House members demanded that the voting regulations — including mandatory photo ID and documentary proof of citizenship to register for federal elections — be written directly into the base text of the NDAA via amendment, thus making it legally harder to unravel.
Analysts say that the legislative standoff represents a massive bottleneck for the thin Republican majority, where Speaker Johnson can only afford to lose three votes on party-line measures.
Notably, this procedural loophole allows Republican leadership to bring the rule back to the floor for reconsideration at a later date without being forced to send the massive defense package back to the House Rules Committee.
Confronted by an unyielding wall of opposition, GOP leadership admitted defeat just hours after the failed vote, canceling all remaining legislative business for Wednesday and Thursday. Lawmakers were sent home for an early Fourth of July holiday recess, postponing any further action on the defense bill or pending appropriations measures until the House reconvenes on July 13th.
A visibly frustrated Speaker Johnson defended the derailed defense package, noting that it contained roughly 65 of the Trump administration’s core priorities and executive orders (EOs). Johnson lamented that a handful of his own members chose to halt very important progress because of their grievances with Senate Democrats.
Meanwhile, thee ultimate destination for the SAVE America Act remains highly contentious.
While the bill represents a core pillar of the Trump administration’s platform, it faces friction in the upper chamber. Even if the House successfully advances the measure, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has struggled to gather the necessary support to cross the 60-vote filibuster threshold, with several Senate Republicans joining Democrats to vote against the measure in a recent 48–50 vote.
As the House enters a multi-week cooling-off period, Johnson indicated he would use the recess to regroup and work on the holdouts, though hardliners have pledged to block all subsequent floor traffic until their strict voting integrity parameters are met.
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By Daniel Cody Published June 30, 2026, 9:17 p.m. ETSee more of our coverage in your search results.
Add The New York Post on GoogleA Florida woman picked up an extra felony charge when she wildly tried to smuggle nearly 4 grams of cocaine into a county jail through her “jail purse.”
Brevard County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Reagan Cox, 30, on Saturday for resisting arrest during a traffic stop. When she arrived at the Brevard County Jail staff noticed something abnormal with Cox’s “lower region” — or her “jail purse area if you will.”

Corrections deputies escorted Cox to a changing room, where she attempted “to shield” her buttock with her hand, authorities said.
When staff removed her hand, a baggie dropped to the floor containing 3.8 grams of cocaine.

“You really just can’t make this stuff up … butt you sure can try as this one puts the ole … ’those are not my pants’ excuse to shame!!” wrote the sheriff’s office in a statement on Facebook.
Cox denied knowing about the cocaine and told deputies that someone must have placed it there during an “intimate encounter,” according to the statement.
She received an additional charge for bringing contraband into a detention facility — and was released from custody the same day.
“Folks, if not realizing that someone left cocaine in your ‘Jail Purse’ is not a good enough reminder to not do drugs, then I don’t know what is!!” clinched the sheriff’s office statement.
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