What a great series for the Houston Astros as they swept the Chicago Cubs in a three game series at Wrigley Field. The Cubs had one their past 11 series and had been playing good baseball at home but the Astros took the wind right out of them from the get go and never looked back.

On Wednesday night, Randy Wolf tossed a complete game shutout as the Astros completed the three game sweep with a 4-0 victory. Wolf kept the Cubs hitters off balanced at the plate as he struck out eight batters and only walked two. Wolf is now 9-11 on the season after picking up the win.

Humberto Quintero got the Astros scoring started in the second inning with a rbi single that scored Hunter Pence. The big shot of the game came in the fifth inning when Ty Wigginton hit a two run home run off of Cubs starting pitcher Ryan Dempster. David Newhan scored the Astros fourth run in the ninth inning when Michael Bourn was caught in a run down between first and second base and Newhan beat Ryan Theriot’s throw to homeplate.

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The Houston Astros and Cincinnati Reds just finished up a three game series that saw the Astros take two out of three games. On Thursday in the rubber game, the Astros defeated the Reds by the score of 3-2. It was a good series win for the Astros who have about a month left in the season to improve on their 68-66 record.

Brad Backe earned the win after throwing 6 2/3 innings. Backe gave up six hits and two runs while picking up his ninth win of the season. The Astros bullpen did a great job to hold the Reds to the two runs that Backe gave up. Doug Brocail, LaTroy Hawkins, and Jose Valverde all threw out of the pen for the Astros. Valverde finished the game up and picked up his 35th save.

All three of the Astros runs in the game via the home run ball as they hit three solo shots off the Reds pitchers. Ty Wigginton got things started with his homerun in the first inning and then in the fifth it was Humberto Quintero’s turn to go deep. The third home run came from Wigginton in the sixth inning as he finished with two home runs and two rbi. Great day for Ty at the plate!

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The Houston Astros were able to come away with a 4-3 victory over the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night.  It was a close game all game long so it was really nice to see the Astros come away with the victory and start the big series with the Rangers off with a win.

Lance Berkman had the big hit for the Astros as he connected on a two run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning.  Those two runs were some nice insurance runs as the Rangers came right back and score two runs in the to of the ninth inning.  Ty Wigginton and Humberto Quintero had the other two rbi for the Astros at the plate.

Brian Moehler started the game for the Astros and pitched 6 1/3 innings as he gave up five hits and one run.  Moehler struck out five batters while walking only one in the game.  He improved to 4-3 on the season with the victory.

The bullpen did a good job up until the ninth inning when Jose Valverde gave up a two run home run that brought the Rangers to within one run.  Valverde was finally able to settle down and finish off the Rangers and pick up his 19th save of the season.

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