HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Astros manager Joe Espada has met with left-handed starter Framber Valdez and catcher César Salazar, who was hit in the chest with a pitch by his teammate during Tuesday's 7-1 loss to the Yankees.

Valdez said he apologized afterward to Salazar and that he didn’t intentionally hit his teammate.

Espada insisted a day later that the situation was “100%” resolved in his mind, and he wanted to “get past this and get back to baseball.”

He met with both players after speaking to the media postgame Tuesday.

“I really wanted to get down to: No. 1, asking him to step off, I wanted to know the thought process, which pitch, who was calling which pitch and what,” Espada said before Wednesday's game. “And, I wanted to hear from both of them at the same time.

“I wanted to have

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