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2017 World Series: Game 2 live blog
Major League Baseball is exploring ways to shorten games. Clone Clayton Kershaw and Dallas Keuchel. Game 1 was an old-fashioned pitching duel. If it had been played in the ’70s or ’80s, both Kershaw and Keuchel would likely have pitched complete games. You probably won’t see a shorter World Series game. Ever. Again. 2:28. In…
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2017 World Series: Game 1 live blog
It’s Game 1 of the 2017 World Series! Sports Illustrated predicted the Astros would be here before A.J. Hinch, before Carlos Correa, before Alex Bregman, before Justin Verlander and before most people knew who Jeff Luhnow was! Now, the Astros are on the national stage in the biggest baseball series of the season. Sound off…
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10 reasons the Astros will beat the Dodgers
Be prepared. Heading into the World Series and likely before every game you will be reminded how the LA Dodgers are superior in every way to the Houston Astros. You will be bombarded with everything from their better record, their dominant post season, their top-notch pitching staff, all the way to their great history (6 WS…
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Free baseball: 5 questions to consider before the WS first pitch
It’s time for some free baseball! This time, however, the celebration isn’t about only reaching the World Series. It’s about winning the biggest trophy on the biggest stage in major league baseball. The Astros are playing in late October for only the second time in the organization’s history. Fox Sports showed a graphic of teams with…
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Houston proud: Holy toledo, Astros win! Astros win!
This is your night! Memorialize your thoughts here in a time capsule for the ages! For more than 50 years, I have have been a die hard fan of this organization. From lying in bed with a transistor radio to watching playoff games in the Astrodome, then from the Crawford Boxes at Minute Maid Park…
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Sports Illustrated reputation is on the line in ALCS
Sports Illustrated’s reputation is on the line tonight at Minute Maid Park in Houston! Here we are — Game 7 of the ALCS — but the Astros still haven’t arrived. Unfortunately, the season may feel like a lost season if the Astros don’t raise a pennant flag tonight. Despite Justin Verlander and Jose Altuve and…
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Astros 2017: It ain’t over until C.C. Sabathia sings!
It never has seemed fair to always talk about “It ain’t over until the fat lady sings.” Sure there are some hefty lady opera singers, but did you ever see the late Luciano Pavarotti? He could have played a backup catcher in a bad “B” baseball movie. So, for fairness and in honor of the…
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Astros need to get their offensive mojo back
Three games is really not a slump, but in a seven game series it can be a killer trend that needs to be reversed. And that is where the Houston Astros stand entering the critical fourth game of their series with the New York Yankees. They drilled the Boston Red Sox in four games with…
