If newly acquired Yu Darvish matches Friday’s seven scoreless-inning, 10-strikeout performance in the playoffs and his Dodger teammate Clayton Kershaw is 100%, and the Astros’ line-up continues to hit anything like it did Friday when they scored 16 runs with all three starting All-Stars on the bench, it could be a great World Series clash. But look out for the Washington Nationals based on the OPS and ERA of their top 11 players.
When two Major League Teams combine to win over 64 percent of their games one of them tends to win the World Series—but the new Westgate World Series Odds indicate the odds are 2-to-1 that someone other than the 63-29 Dodgers or 61-30 Astros do it this season.
Carlos Correa homered twice and drove in a career-high five runs as the Houston Astros romped into the All-Star break, battering the Toronto Blue Jays 19-1 Sunday.
After Sunday’s 8-4 win over the Orioles, the Astros are on course for the World Series title that Sports Illustrated predicted three years ago would happen this October.
Friday night, the Houston Astros will put the best baseball trio in 15 years on the field in the battle for Texas against the Rangers.
The Houston Astros, the only team with three of the top 11 players in MLB, appeared to get knocked off the “wild card” island with the worst start to a game in the history of baseball — only to recover to pound the Baltimore Orioles 31-8 the rest of the weekend to pull within 4 ½ games of the Orioles, Mariners, Royals, Tigers and Yankees for the last playoff spot.
Houston Astros star outfielder George Springer made what will go down as one of the top plays of the 2016 season. With two outs and nobody on during the first inning of Thursday’s game in Chicago, White Sox first baseman
On Tuesday night, Mike Bell, who co-hosts an Atlanta sports radio show, blistered Jessica Mendoza, the first woman to serve as an analyst on an MLB postseason game.
The Houston Astros clinched a trip to the ALDS with a 3-0 victory over the New York Yankees in the American League wildcard game on Tuesday and celebrated by spraying champagne on each other in the clubhouse. Caught up in the post-game fun was
Baseball’s first $300 million team batted .198, boasted three extra base hits (all doubles, see box score), and played on the wrong end of a no-hitter during their ill-fated series against the Houston Astros, a team with the second lowest payroll ($69 million) in baseball, this weekend.
This weekend the Houston Astros’ great, Craig Biggio, 5 foot 11, 185 pounds, number 44, was inducted into the 2015 Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. He was elected with 82.7% of voters in his third run. Biggio was one of the famous “Killer Bs” of the Houston Astros.
The St. Louis Cardinals have fired their scouting director in the wake of an FBI investigation into charges that someone in the team’s front office hacked into the computer system of the Houston Astros.
St. Louis Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak spoke with reporters regarding the FBI’s investigation of the Cardinals hacking the internal database of the Houston Astros. Mozeliak stated that hacking other teams’ databases has no place in Major League Baseball, but
Earlier this week the New York Times revealed that the St. Louis Cardinals allegedly hacked into the Houston Astros computer network and stole proprietary information back in June 2014.
During Tuesday’s “Pardon the Interruption” on ESPN, co-hosts Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon reacted to the report that the St. Louis Cardinals are being investigated by the FBI for hacking the Houston Astros internal database, which contains sensitive player information. Both
The St. Louis Cardinals front office is being investigated by the FBI for hacking the internal database of the Houston Astros, named Ground Control, in order to steal information regarding players, according to The New York Times. Investigators have uncovered evidence that the
