Jordan Lyles pitched well and the Astros took an early lead and held on to beat the Royals 3-1 and take the series.
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COMMENTARY | When a team overhauls its roster in the offseason as dramatically as the Cleveland Indians did over the winter, fans can only hope the new additions work out more often than not. Fortunately, that has been the case for the Tribe thus far as offseason acquisitions Michael Bourn, Mark Reynolds and Nick Swisher have all played well in 2013.
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Injuries mount; Howard’s is most worrisome
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The Astros have named Larry Dierker as the special assistant to new president Reid Ryan.
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Astros pitching, offense and defense all contributed to Monday’s series opening win over the Kansas City Royals on Monday night at Minute Maid Park.
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COMMENTARY | Jeff Locke held the Houston Astros scoreless through seven innings Sunday, just long enough for Mark Melancon and Jason Grilli to come in and shut the door like they have so many times this season. It was a masterful performance for the young pup of the rotation, even if it was against the worst team in baseball. The feat marks the third time this season Locke has held opponents scoreless during an outing, a trend that Pittsburgh Pirates pitchers are accomplishing at a rapid rate so far.
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Miguel Cabrera doesn’t exactly need to remind us that he’s really, really good at hitting baseballs. Coming into Sunday’s game against the Texas Rangers, the reigning AL MVP and Triple Crown winner, already led baseball in batting average and RBIs.
With an other-worldly display Sunday, the Detroit Tigers slugger showed why he’s a Triple Crown candidate again. He hit three homers, going 4-for-4 and driving in five runs. He now has 11 home runs, which is one behind the AL lead.
But here’s the reality check: The Tigers still lost to the Rangers 11-8 in a matchup that many think we could see again come playoff time. The Rangers have the best record in baseball at 29-15, while the Tigers are in second in the AL Central at 23-19, behind the surging Cleveland Indians.
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The Baltimore Orioles have been basically untouchable when leading after seven innings over the past couple of seasons, but that all came to a stunning and screeching halt on Saturday. With a 6-4 lead entering the ninth, closer Jim Johnson, whose consecutive save streak ended at 35 on Tuesday, allowed a home run to Kelly Johnson, two walks, a single, before wrapping up his outing on Matt Joyce’s go-ahead, two-run double.
Sidearmer Darren O’Day took over from there and allowed both of Johnson’s inherited runners to score and then one of his own. All in all, it was a six-run rally for the Rays that turned Baltimore‘s lead into a 10-6 defeat , ending their remarkable 109-game winning streak in games they led after the seventh inning in the process.
I suppose they knew it was coming eventually, but one has to believe there were a few shocked people in Baltimore’s clubhouse after it got away to that extent. Meanwhile, Evan Longoria and the Rays couldn’t have been more thrilled they were the team to finally end the late inning dominance.
”Their track record after seven innings has spoken for itself,” Longoria said. ”They’ve been really good late in the game. And Jim Johnson has been as good as they come. To be able to get to him and then tack a couple more on and be able to win a game like that, especially here in this hostile environment, is really big.”
The Rays will hope to make it three really big wins on Sunday as they go for the series sweep.
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PITTSBURGH — Jason Castro is the Houston Astros’ cleanup hitter but he acted like a leadoff hitter once he got on base in the 11th inning Saturday night.
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The Houston Astros introduced Reid Ryan as their new president on Friday.
It’s possible somewhere down the road we’ll look back at that moment as the turning point in their organization’s history. For now, though, they’re still the same old Houston Astros, which means losing games in every way imaginable will continue.
For example, let’s look at Friday night’s 5-4 walkoff loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Astros held a 4-1 lead through five innings, but saw that evaporate by the time the ninth inning rolled around. The all too familiar sense of impending doom had to be consuming Astros fans at this point, and especially so when Pittsburgh loaded the bases with one out after pitcher Edgar Gonzalez botched a would be 1-6-3 double play.
However, as bleak as it looked for that moment, fans were able to let out a temporary sigh of relief after Gonzalez recovered to strikeout Neil Walker for a huge second out. Gonzalez then made the biggest pitch of the game, getting Russell Martin to hit a weak fly ball into short right field for what should have been the third and final out of the inning.
Only one little problem… Impending DOOM finally arrived at PNC Park.
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