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HOUSTON — Justin Verlander will make his long-awaited season debut for the Astros on Friday against the Nationals in Washington, D.C., manager Joe Espada announced on Wednesday.
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By: Brian Mctaggart
HOUSTON -- Jeremy Peña removed his helmet with two hands after he hit into a game-ending double play on Wednesday afternoon and slammed it to the ground. Alex Bregman sat in the dugout for a few minutes after the final out and stared out at the field. Disbelief and frustration
CHICAGO -- The only player on the Astros roster who was in the lineup in the club's previous game at Wrigley Field, which came 11 years earlier, was Jose Altuve.
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CHICAGO -- In a perfect world, Spencer Arrighetti would have settled into the Triple-A rotation to start the season and slowly and steadily built his case to make it to Houston at some point this summer. The Astros, with their starting rotation riddled with injuries, didn’t have that luxury. Arrighetti,
By: Brian McTaggart, Thomas Harding
Houston shortstop Jeremy Peña made a New Year’s resolution to do more traveling to places that he’s never been to before. It’s a work trip, but Peña is excited to lead the Astros south of the border this weekend to face the Rockies in a pair of games in the Mexico City Series at Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú.
By: Brian Mctaggart
CHICAGO -- Astros third baseman Alex Bregman became the 14th player in club history to reach 1,000 hits with a bloop single to right field in the sixth inning of Thursday’s game against the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Bregman, who began the day hitting .202, was two hits shy of
By: Brian Mctaggart
CHICAGO -- Everybody loves a good comeback story. Nobody would love one more than the Astros, who have stumbled out of the gate to start the season and have dug themselves such a hole that the word frustration doesn’t even begin to describe the mood in the clubhouse these days.
MEXICO CITY -- Yordan Alvarez and Kyle Tucker slugged back-to-back home runs in the third inning and Ronel Blanco allowed two runs in 5 2/3 innings as the Astros snapped their five-game losing streak with a 12-4 win over the Rockies in the first game of the Mexico City Series
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