The Houston Astros, based in Houston, Texas, participate in Major League Baseball (MLB) and are a member of the National League Central Division. The Astros were founded as the Houston Colt .45's in 1962.
PHOENIX — Even Wandy Rodriguez couldn't save the Astros from their fate. The left-hander battled the D-backs and home-plate umpire Mike DiMuro on Sunday, but to no avail. Despite Rodriguez throwing six-plus innings of seven-hit ball, the Astros were swept in a three-game series by the D-backs, losing the finale, 4-3, at Chase Field. "It [...]
PHOENIX — On the last day of August, no one could have anticipated that the Astros-Cubs three-game series at Wrigley Field might be anticlimactic. With the first-place Cardinals now running away from the pack in the National League Central, the Astros go into Monday night's tilt trailing by 14 games with the Cubs 10 games [...]
PHOENIX — The Astros couldn't solve D-backs starter Jon Garland on Saturday night, losing a 9-0 decision to the D-backs at Chase Field. Garland (8-11) pitched seven innings of five-hit ball and earned the victory as the Astros lost for fifth time in their last six games. On this nine-game trip through St. Louis, Arizona [...]
PHOENIX — The on-and-off-again career of pitcher Mike Hampton is off again. The Astros left-hander said on Saturday that he's done for the season and will have surgeries on his left shoulder and both knees in an attempt to come back again next year. "When I finally walk away I don't want there ever to [...]
PHOENIX — The Astros opened a six-game road trip through Arizona and Chicago on a sour note Friday night, dropping a 14-7 decision to the D-backs at Chase Field. It was a game in which the Astros (62-66) had a 4-3 lead heading into the bottom of the third when two of their young pitchers [...]
HOUSTON — The Astros placed right-handed reliever Alberto Arias on the 15-day disabled list on Friday with a strained right hamstring and recalled right-hander Wilton Lopez from Double-A Corpus Christi. Arias' move is retroactive to Monday. Arias, 25, is 2-1 with a 3.35 ERA in 42 relief outings for Houston this season, having made the [...]
ST. LOUIS — The kind of fight and determination the Astros showed in the latter innings of Thursday's come-from-behind win over the Cardinals was exactly what ace pitcher Roy Oswalt said was missing in a pair of one-run losses in the first two games of the series. Only hours after Oswalt and slugger Lance Berkman [...]
ST. LOUIS — Hunter Pence is expected to return to the starting lineup in right field Friday when the Astros open a three-game series against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Pence was out of the starting lineup in two of the previous four games and has struggled at the plate in August. Pence didn't start in right [...]
ST. LOUIS — The biggest statement Roy Oswalt made on Wednesday night at Busch Stadium wasn't with his best fastball or his knee-buckling curve. Not long after the Astros lost their third consecutive game in a 3-2 setback to the Cardinals that dropped them a season-high 12 games out of first place in the National [...]
ST. LOUIS — Left-hander Tim Byrdak is the only member of the Astros' bullpen that began the season on the roster and didn't wind up on the disabled list at some point during the year. Byrdak, 35, has certainly been the healthiest and perhaps the most consistent member of the Houston 'pen this year. He [...]