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Byline: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY BALTIMORE - They exude veteran cool and always act like they've been there before because, goodness, they most certainly have. Reach seven consecutive American League [...]

Byline: Chelsea Janes BALTIMORE - Friday afternoon in the visiting clubhouse at Camden Yards, the same old Houston Astros were doing the same old Houston Astros things. Alex Bregman popped [...]

Byline: Chelsea Janes BALTIMORE - Friday afternoon in the visitors' clubhouse at Camden Yards, the same old Houston Astros were doing the same old Houston Astros things. Alex Bregman popped [...]

Byline: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY Odd enough that the American League West is, objectively, a bad division. Odder still that it looks increasingly unlikely the Houston Astros will finish atop [...]

Byline: Andrew Golden ARLINGTON, Tex. - A day before Houston Astros starter Cristian Javier stepped on the mound for Game 3 of the American League Championship Series, he stood in [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, Columnist HOUSTON - It was as if Hollywood came up with another 'Back to the Future' sequel, this time with the Baltimore Orioles pondering what the baseball [...]

Byline: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY As they returned to Dodger Stadium for the third time since winning the 2017 World Series, the Houston Astros received the standard treatment: boos and [...]

Byline: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY Texas is officially a problem. The Rangers are reaping the benefits of two wild winters of spending, storming to a 29-17 start due in part [...]

Byline: Chelsea Janes By recent standards, Major League Baseball spring training will be downright routine this year. No new pandemic threatens to keep fans out of the stands. No owner-initiated [...]

Jose Altuve, Yuli Gurriel and Alex Bregman have reached the A.L.C.S. in six straight seasons. Through triumph and scandal, they have taught a rotating cast of teammates how to win. [...]

Byline: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY HOUSTON - If there is such a thing as the Astros Way, it is not memorialized in print. 'We don't hand out pamphlets,' insists starting [...]

Byline: Chelsea Janes PHILADELPHIA - If the Philadelphia Phillies were at all anxious about hosting their first World Series game since 2008 on Monday night, they did not show it [...]

Game 3 Starters Houston Astros at Philadelphia Phillies, Citizens Bank Park Monday, 8:03 p.m. Eastern time, Fox Tied, one game apiece, the World Series shifts to Philadelphia, where both teams [...]

Byline: Chelsea Janes HOUSTON - In the months before the 2019 MLB draft, then-Wayne State University right-hander Hunter Brown did what any self-respecting job seeker would do. He exaggerated on [...]

Byline: Andrew Golden The Major League Baseball season is nearly complete, and it will culminate with a World Series matchup between the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies beginning Friday night. [...]

The 1980 N.L.C.S. between Houston and Philadelphia has endured as one of the greatest postseason series in history. This year's World Series has big shoes to fill. The Phillies' marquee [...]

Houston and Philadelphia will face off in a matchup of teams that have caught fire in the postseason. Game 1 is set for Friday in Houston. The Houston Astros have [...]

Byline: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY NEW YORK - Chas McCormick swung hard at the pitch and then blacked out, in a sense, the way athletes do in the fire of [...]

Byline: Andrew Golden The Major League Baseball season is nearly complete, and it will culminate with a World Series matchup between the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies beginning Friday night. [...]

Byline: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY HOUSTON - The Houston Astros smashed the Yordan Rules before the New York Yankees had any chance to enact them. Facing the hitter who single-handedly [...]

Byline: Pete Caldera, NorthJersey.com | USA TODAY Network NEW YORK - Standing near pools of spilled champagne in a deafening postgame celebration, Aaron Judge outlined what had always been the [...]

Byline: Jesse Yomtov, USA TODAY The New York Yankees have gone 16-26 since the All-Star break, allowing their division rivals back into the American League East Division race and the [...]

Houston's experience couldn't save it in the World Series. With Carlos Correa hinting he might leave, there is no telling what the team might look like next season. HOUSTON -- [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, Columnist, USA TODAY ATLANTA - The Astros walked out of the interview room late Sunday night, and down the corridor, maybe 200 feet away, was the most [...]

Byline: Barry Svrluga ATLANTA - Carlos Correa isn't going away. Alex Bregman isn't going away. The Houston Astros aren't going away. Not at Truist Park, for sure, because they closed [...]

Byline: Tim Tucker The opening game of the World Series drew a 26.0 rating in the Atlanta television market, meaning 26% of the households here watched on average as the [...]

Houston and Atlanta have continuity to spare. The connections between this year's World Series teams are numerous, especially with their homegrown cores. HOUSTON -- Two were drafted first overall. Two [...]

Brought in to clean up someone else's mess, Dusty Baker is back in the World Series with a chance to redefine his legacy as well as the legacy of the [...]

A cheating scandal and a tainted World Series title had the Houston Astros in disarray. James Click got the franchise right back in the business of trying to win championships. [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty BOSTON - The last hours of Wednesday could have been far different for the Houston Astros. That was the promise at the start of this week. But [...]

In a strategy their pitching coach compared to the Celtics of yesteryear, the Astros have been relying on their bullpen to carry them. On Wednesday, the relievers finally got some [...]

Byline: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY BOSTON - This is not how the Astros are accustomed to rolling through the playoffs. Since acquiring Justin Verlander in August 2017, high-end starting pitching [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin HOUSTON - In the long break between the fourth and fifth pitches of the second inning of Game 2 of the American League Championship Series, as time [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin HOUSTON - In the long break between the fourth and fifth pitches of the second inning of Game 2 of the American League Championship Series, as time [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin HOUSTON - A year ago Friday, when Houston Astros shortstop Carlos Correa blasted a towering walk-off home run to win Game 5 of the American League Championship [...]

Byline: Chelsea Janes After the Chicago White Sox scored their first and ultimately only win of the American League Division Series, reliever Ryan Tepera implied the Houston Astros had a [...]

Byline: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY Kudos to the many presidents of baseball operations, general managers, assistant GMs, special assistants to the GM, analysts, quants and support staff who orchestrated an [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, Columnist, USA TODAY NEW YORK - Astros manager Dusty Baker has witnessed just about everything imaginable in the 5,627 games he has managed and played in his [...]

Despite a losing record in the regular season, Houston has blitzed through the postseason and reached the A.L.C.S., where a crafty Rays squad awaits. There was symbolism in the timing [...]

Two strong teams took 1-0 leads, and a third New York-Houston series seems likely. Let's put the caveat up front: Nobody clinches a best-of-five series in Game 1. The Tampa [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty In April of 2018, long before the world linked the Houston Astros with illicit sign-stealing, two of their pitchers discussed Fortnite, fashion trends and how Major League [...]

The A's got their first postseason series victory since 2006, and they will now face a Houston team that has become their nemesis. No team knows the agony of instant [...]

A cheating scandal still shadows Houston, but in empty stadiums its players are tuning it out. ''The more we win, the closer it brings us together.'' The Houston Astros hear [...]

Just the thought of the Houston Astros skating away without any public rebuke rankled Jon Wilson. A 43-year-old software consultant from California's East Bay and a devout Oakland Athletics fan, [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY In these times of uncertainty and upheaval, it's nice to know there's one thing that doesn't change. The Astros remain the worst team in [...]

Byline: Thomas Boswell Ten days ago, I ran into Cal Ripken Jr. in a store in Annapolis, Maryland. We chatted so long, catching up, that the store stayed open late [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY MESA, Ariz. - They have been baseball's biggest bullies, winning at least 100 games the past three years, laughing and dancing their way to glory. [...]

Byline: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY One question stands out among the many that keep surfacing in the wake of the Astros' sign-stealing scandal. Why? Why would a highly talented group [...]

Now that their division rivals have been punished for cheating, the Oakland Athletics hope to finally close the gap on Houston and make a deep run into the postseason. MESA, [...]