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HOUSTON – When Isaac Paredes was informed that he was going to make his Major League debut in 2020, the first person he called was his grandmother, Gloria Eduviges, back home in Mexico. “She said congrats, and she was very happy that I was finally able to make my dreams

HOUSTON -- The first thing that went through Ethan Pecko’s mind when he was scratched from his scheduled start Sunday for Triple-A Sugar Land at Round Rock was that he had been traded.

BALTIMORE -- After playing 836 MLB games, hitting 129 home runs and authoring two emotional comeback stories, Trey Mancini is retiring from baseball. The 34-year-old Winter Haven, Fla., native announced the decision in an Instagram post on Tuesday morning. Mancini was an eighth-round Draft pick of the Orioles in 2013,

HOUSTON -- The Astros are struggling to piece together a stable five-man rotation, which is a problem that’s only compounded when ace right-hander Hunter Brown isn't at his best. Brown continues to have trouble throwing his four-seam fastball for strikes, which has led to fewer swings against him and higher

"It's amazing," Jay Lucarelli, who drank two 20-ounce Red Bulls on Sunday, messaged me. "My hands are still shaky after the final out. They need to be iced for sure. I need a Thai massage." What started as an innocent way to introduce himself to Tik-Tok streaming about a week

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HOUSTON -- Few players defined the rainbow-jersey era of the 1980s Astros more than Alan Ashby and Phil Garner, both of whom began their career elsewhere before becoming fan favorites in Houston and mainstays on the field during a time when the franchise was coming into its own.

Some might call these the dog days of summer, but with as much activity and excitement as there has been in baseball for the last week — Field of Dreams! Joshua Báez! A wild Brewers-Dodgers series featuring the best pitchers on earth — we’ll confess to not feeling particularly dogged

You know what they say: A division isn’t won in April. Sure, sometimes the team atop the standings in April does end up capturing the division crown, but a lot can change over the course of a baseball season -- and even over the course of the final two months.

HOUSTON -- The ball jumped off Christian Walker’s bat like a rocket, sparking the kind of wild on-field celebration the Astros hope they get to experience a lot more of in the season’s final six weeks and beyond. Players poured out of the dugout, fireworks exploded overhead and everyone at

HOUSTON -- Astros right-hander Mike Burrows, who’s been out for more than a month with right elbow neuritis, had a successful rehab start for Triple-A Sugar Land on Friday night, throwing 4 1/3 scoreless while allowing three hits and one walk. Burrows threw 43 of 67 pitches for strikes at

Editor's Note: Jay Lucarelli did it! After 1,993 tries, after eight days, after a nail-biting ninth inning with nearly another Doug Mirabelli pinch-hit base hit, it's over. A perfect game has been thrown by Roy Oswalt in MVP 2005.

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SAN FRANCISCO -- With the victory music pumping in the visiting clubhouse, the Astros couldn’t pack and leave Oracle Park fast enough on Wednesday afternoon. The Giants, who traded away one of their best starting pitchers and their best hitter at the Trade Deadline, gave Houston everything it could handle

The prospect landscape has changed a lot since we launched our first 2026 Top 100 back in January. After the Draft, a Trade Deadline and the bulk of the 2026 season, we figured it was time to update our rankings. And it’s not just a new Top 100 we’re unveiling.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Astros second baseman Jose Altuve, still hobbled from getting hit on the left foot by a pitch in the first inning of Tuesday’s 4-1 loss to the Giants, was out of the lineup for Wednesday’s series finale and unavailable to play.

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It’s crowded at the top. You may ask, "The top of what?" Well, the MLB home run leaderboard. Junior Caminero and Matt Olson each hit their 35th home runs of the season on Tuesday night to tie for the MLB lead. Yordan Alvarez hit his 35th on July 28 and

SAN FRANCISCO -- This was a game the Astros simply couldn’t afford to lose, and it looked like they were going to do just that when they were down to their final strike in the ninth inning Monday night against the Giants at Oracle Park. In fact, the Giants’ win

SAN DIEGO -- The Astros dropped their second straight series Sunday afternoon, falling 7–2 to the Padres at Petco Park. Following a series loss to Toronto earlier in the week, Sunday’s finale marks the first time since the All-Star break that Houston has dropped consecutive series.

SAN DIEGO -- One night after setting the tone at Petco Park behind a multihomer outburst, the Astros found themselves locked in a low-scoring grind, falling 3-2 to the Padres on Saturday.

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