3 Aces: Astros Trade Prospects For Zack Greinke; Joins Justin Verlander, Gerrit Cole In Starting Rotation
Greinke's addition gives the Astros four starting pitchers with ERAs in the top 15 in the majors this year.
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Greinke's addition gives the Astros four starting pitchers with ERAs in the top 15 in the majors this year.
Michael Brantley homered twice, Jose Altuve also went deep and the Houston Astros beat the struggling Texas Rangers 5-3 on Sunday for their fifth straight victory.
José Urquidy threw seven dominant innings for his first major league win and Yuli Gurriel hit a three-run homer, sending the Houston Astros to a 6-1 victory over the skidding Texas Rangers on Saturday night.
Verlander struck out 12 in six solid innings, four Houston players hit solo home runs and the Astros held on to beat the Texas Rangers 4-3.
Justin Verlander followed a two-run first inning with five no-hit innings and José Altuve hit Houston's franchise-record ninth grand slam of the season as the Astros beat the Rangers 12-4 on Sunday.
While Jose Altuve had the tiebreaking two-out double in the 11th inning, he gave most of the credit to George Springer for putting the Houston Astros ahead for good.
Danny Santana had already hit one of the five home runs by the Texas Rangers. With a chance to win the game with two outs in the ninth inning, he lined a ball up the middle and then saw Houston center fielder George Springer on a full sprint toward the ball.
Lance Lynn matched his season high with 11 strikeouts in seven stellar innings for his major league-best 12th victory and the Texas Rangers beat the AL West-leading Houston Astros 5-0 in the only game Thursday night when Major League Baseball resumed after the All-Star break.
Verlander, who has been giving up homers routinely this season, says he believes a "juiced ball" is the reason.
Justin Verlander of the Astros will be making his second All-Star start on Tuesday night. Hyun-Jin Ryu of the Dodgers will make his first All-Star Game start for the National League.
Rougned Odor's three-run homer in the 11th inning gave the Texas Rangers a 4-1 win against the Minnesota Twins on Sunday.
An attorney for the family of a 2-year-old girl struck by a foul ball during a game last month between the Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros said Wednesday that the girl suffered a skull fracture and had seizures.
The girl was hit during Wednesday night's game between the Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park in Houston, an incident MLB called "extremely upsetting."
A young fan at Wednesday night's game between the Cubs and Astros was struck by a foul ball hit by Albert Almora Jr., shaking up the Chicago center fielder.
Carlos Correa is now out 4 to 6 weeks with a fractured rib. He joins Jose Altuve and George Springer on the list of stars out of the Astros lineup due to injury.
After 600 games in seven minor league seasons, Jack Mayfield hit a double in the second and got his first RBI on a groundout in Houston's five-run third inning.
Cody Bellinger, the Dodgers' right fielder, is batting over .400 and leading MLB in any number of hitting categories.
George Springer was 5 for 5 with four RBIs and a pair of home runs that increased total to an AL-high 15, leading the Houston Astros to a 15-5 rout over Texas on Sunday and a four-game sweep of the Rangers.
Gerrit Cole struck out a season-high 12, Aledmys Díaz hit a grand slam while starting in place of injured star Jose Altuve and the Houston Astros beat the Texas Rangers 11-4 Saturday night.
The New York Yankees, who just swept the San Francisco Giants, are 9-1 in their last 10 games, even as their injuries continue to mount.
The Texas Rangers got the series win over the Houston Astros on Sunday in a game that was nail-biting in the ninth inning.
Joey Gallo hit another long home run, Asdrúbal Cabrera accounted for five runs and the Rangers beat the Houston Astros 9-4 on Saturday night in another frustrating start for Gerrit Cole against Texas.
Jennifer Harughty says Orbit "shattered" her finger during a July 2018 game after firing a T-shirt from a "bazooka style" cannon into the stands that "struck Harughty at close distance."
Minor, who didn't make it out of the fifth inning in his first career opening-day start last Thursday, gave up five hits, struck out seven and walked two in his seven innings.
Gallo grounded a hard single through the right side of the infield, a tiebreaking two-run hit in the seventh inning that went between two diving infielders as the Rangers beat the Houston Astros 6-4 on Tuesday night.
