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Astros win their third straight game behind masterful pitching performance
With one week left before Opening Day, the Houston Astros are getting themselves into regular season form. On Thursday night they won their third consecutive game defeating the St. Louis Cardinals by a score of 3-0 at Ballpark of the Palm Beaches.
Rockets Look To Avoid Their 20th Consecutive Loss On Sunday Against The Thunder
If you watched the Houston Rockets on Friday in the 113-100 loss to the Detroit Pistons, you could see why some consider them the perfect conundrum. Even with losing their franchise high 19th game in a row, many fans still support them and can find more positives in the loss than negatives.
Astros Sends Early Message To American League Champions
The Astros got a small piece of revenge on Friday against the Tampa Bay Rays. Although it was just a regular season game, Houston may have still had the feelings they felt the last time the two teams met in Game 7 of the 2020 American League Championship Series.
Astros Postseason Aspirations Will Be Tested Early With Brutal Post-All-Star Break Schedule
The Astros will be tested early by playing 20 games in 19 days, starting with a doubleheader against the Yankees. The back-to-back games are makeups for a series scheduled to open the season but was postponed due to this year’s lockout
Rockets Are Learning Quickly That The NBA Does Not Count Moral Victories
If they ever added a third column for moral victories, the Houston Rockets would have the best record in the league. On Saturday, the Rockets lost to the New York Knicks 106-99, and as it has been for most games throughout their season-high 14 games losing streak, they were close but couldn’t finish the deal.
Texans Offense Fails Them Again In Loss To Colts
“We don’t have the consistency,” Texans head coach David Culley said. “We’re still having some breakdowns. “Basically, those things put us behind the chains.”
Brian Gaine Out As Texans GM
Friday's are usually slow days for the media as no one really expects anything to break going into the weekend news cycle. I guess no one mentioned that to the Texans franchise. Houston fired their General Manager Brian Gaine after less than two years of service with the organization.
The Houston Rockets Announce That They Have Re-signed Guard Danté Exum.
On Saturday, the Houston Rockets announced that they have re-signed Danté Exum who they acquired in a four-team trade from Cleveland last season. He was originally the fifth overall pick by Utah in the 2014 NBA Draft.
Astros winning streak stopped at eight-games after loss to Padres
The old cliché goes, “All good things must come to an end.” The Houston Astros (15-11) learned that on Friday night as the San Diego Padres (16-12) broke their eight-game winning streak defeating them 4-3 at Petco Park.
Closure
Astros get help from a friendly foe to secure final A.L. playoff spot.
As a young man my grandmother always taught me to do everything on my own and never depend on anyone to do anything for me.
Headed Towards the Home Stretch
Astros hope that coming home can get them ready for a playoff run
For the Houston Astros, Monday can’t come fast enough. They finally get a rest day after playing a grueling 11-games on the West Coast that left them with a 2-9 record on the road and brings their away record to 7-18 on the season with seven more road games left. Three of those games will be against the Seattle Mariners who currently trail them in the standings for second place in the A.L. West by 1 ½ games.
Astros Defeat Oakland To Take Over Sole Possession Of First Place In A.L. West
On Thursday Houston defeated the Oakland A’s 8-4 to complete game number 10 out of 13 against interdivisional opponents in which they have won eight of those games and now lead the division by .05 games with a 26-18 record.
Rockets rally comes up short in Philadelphia
I am a firm believer that most individuals believe that there are no such things as moral victories in professional sports. Many have the mindset like the majority of the athletes that only wins, and losses are the only thing that shows up in the standings.
Calm Down, The Astros Will Be Just Fine
The Houston Astros split their four-game season-opening series with the Chicago White Sox after losing on Sunday 6-3 at Minute Maid Park. Ok, everyone. Calm down; they still have 158 more games to play this season. They will be just fine.
Repeat Performance
Texans drop season opener to the Chiefs
For at least four hours on Thursday night, America felt normal again because the NFL was back. In spite of everything this country has been through with the COVID-19 global pandemic, football is something that can help mentally take away all of the disastrous events that has happened this year. Unfortunately for the Houston Texans their woes continued as their 2020 NFL season began the same way their 2019 season ended with a loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.
Rockets must dig deep to stave off elimination in Game 5 against the Lakers
The Houston Rockets will be in a familiar place in Game 5 of the Western Conference Semifinals on Saturday inside the bubble at Disney Orlando as they face the Los Angeles Lakers down 3-1 in the best-of-seven series. They faced elimination late last month against the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first round and was able to come away victorious in Game 7 thanks to a huge defensive effort by superstar James Harden.
Going Camping: Houston Texans Open 2017 Training Camp in West Virginia
The Houston Texans started training camp in unfamiliar territory. The franchise decided to hold the majority of their 2017 camp at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia and it will be the first time in franchise history (15 years) that training camp will be held outside the city of Houston. There will be a total of fifteen training camp practice sessions that the residents of White Sulphur Springs can attend to see the reigning 2016 AFC South Champions. The Aug. 15 – 16 sessions will be joint practices with the Super Bowl Champions New England Patriots.
They Can’t Keep Getting Away
Astros drop second close game to Tampa to fall behind 2-0 in the 2020 ALCS
The Houston Astros find themselves in a very bad situation going into Tuesday’s Game 3 of the ALCS against the Tampa Bay Rays. Although this is a seven-game series, this is a “Must Win” game for Houston as they trail in the series 2-0.
Repeat Performance
Javier dominates Diamondbacks to get his first Major League win
On Tuesday night the Houston Astros (6-4) defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks (3-8) by a score of 8-2. Some will look at the score and think it was a blowout victory by the Astros, but there was a lot of details and improvements by Houston that is starting to show. They are getting that three consecutive 100-plus win seasons glow about them again.
Getting the Band Back Together: Houston Welcomes Back Center Clint Capela to the Starting Lineup
In 2014, one of the best hip-hop duos known to date, Outkast, reunited to play dozens of venues around the United States including Coachella, which is the biggest summer music festival around. It had been nearly 10 years since Big Boi and Andre 3000 had been on stage, but once they hit that stage it was like they never had a layoff.
