HOUSTON -- All-Star shortstop Jeremy Peña , whose seventh-inning grand slam Saturday has accounted for the only four runs the Astros scored in the first two games in their showdown against the Mariners, was scratched from Sunday’s lineup with left oblique soreness.

Mauricio Dubón, who was originally in the lineup in left field, started at shortstop in Peña’s place, with Jesús Sánchez moving from right field to left field, and rookie Zach Cole entering the starting lineup in right field.

There was no immediate word on how long Peña could be sidelined, but it leaves Houston again without their two best offensive players. The Astros lost slugger Yordan Alvarez to a “significant” left ankle sprain Monday after he had missed 100 games while recovering from a fractured bone in his hand.

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