McCullers Gets the Ball as Astros Open High-Stakes Series vs Yankees
HOUSTON — The New York Yankees come to Daikin Park this weekend, and the Houston Astros could use a statement series. At 10-16, Houston has been treading water in a season defined more by the injury report than the box score. The offense has held the…
Yordan Alvarez Is Carrying the Astros—and Crushing the League in the Process
Through the first three-plus weeks of the 2026 season, the Houston Astros have been a team searching for answers. The rotation has been decimated by injuries, the bullpen has been overworked, and the offense has gone cold at the worst possible times. In…
Hold On to Your Hats, Astros Fans
We can’t keep this story under our hat any longer. The Houston Astros have officially joined baseball’s home run celebration club, and hats off to the man who made it happen—catcher Christian Vázquez, who went online, pulled out his own…
Astros Place Cody Bolton on IL, Recall Spencer Arrighetti
The Houston Astros have placed right-hander Cody Bolton on the 15-day injured list with mid-back inflammation, retroactive to April 13, the club announced Wednesday. Bolton, who had been pressed into rotation duty amid a wave of injuries, was struck in…
Jackie Robinson Day Reminds Baseball What Still Matters
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn wearing number 42 for the Brooklyn Dodgers and changed the course of baseball and the country that watched it. Robinson was the first African American to play in Major League…
Tatsuya Imai Points to American Lifestyle in Explaining Arm Fatigue
Tatsuya Imai has had an explanation for just about everything. The mound in Seattle was too hard. The weather was too cold. The baseball felt different. And now, the meal schedule. Since arriving in Houston on a three-year, $54 million contract, the…
Kai-Wei Teng Emerging as Astros Bullpen Bright Spot
In a season already defined by injury and misfortune, the Houston Astros have found a reliable arm in Kai-Wei Teng. The 27-year-old Taiwanese right-hander has been one of the few reliable arms in an otherwise battered bullpen, posting a 2-0 record with…
Phil Garner, Astros’ “Scrap Iron” Manager, Dies at 76
Phil Garner earned his nickname the hard way. Hall of Fame broadcaster Milo Hamilton first called the young Pittsburgh Pirates infielder “Scrap Iron”, a nod to the dirt-caked uniform, the knocked-down grounders, the absolute refusal to give…
Dusty Baker Secretly Fed Houston’s Homeless
Before Dusty Baker drove home after Astros games, he made a stop. Night after night, the championship manager would gather the leftover food from the clubhouse, package it up, and drive to the Interstate 69 underpass, where he quietly handed it out to…
Former Astro Davey Lopes Dies at 80
Davey Lopes, one of baseball’s premier base stealers and a former Houston Astro, died Wednesday at the age of 80 following complications from Parkinson’s disease. He passed away in Rhode Island. Lopes spent the final two seasons of his…
