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Astros News
Magic Number: 3
- It took 12 innings and 4+ hours, but the Astros emerged victorious over the Angels last night and shaved their magic number to 3 (Astros.com)
- Yordan Alvarez was pulled late after lumbering around the bases, but that was just a precautionary measure due to some soreness according to Dusty (Twitter - Mark Berman)`
- Luis Garcia left after 6 scoreless innings, but his command was shakier than his final line would seem to show (Texas Sports Nation, $$$)
- Jake Odorizzi is ready to return to the mound and his final two starts of the season will determine where, or if, he slots in for October (Astros.com)
- One of the Astros’ surprising strengths this season has been their outfield depth, which has been on full display recently (Last Word on Sports)
- Jeremy Pena recently talked about his future after recovering from wrist surgery and what the next step of his development will be (The Athletic, $$$)
- Bagwell and Biggio both had tributes to teammates lost along the way inscribed inside their Astros’ HoF rings (Houston Chronicle)
Around the League
- The Blue Jays and Rays are escalating their flap over Kiermaier stealing a pitching plan at the plate the other day (Sports Illustrated)
- Will Max Scherzer go down in history as the greatest midseason acquisition ever? (Sporting News)
- The Giants continue to hold serve in the division after winning on the strength of Scott Kazmir’s comeback start last night (MLB.com)
- For the second time this season a home run was turned into a single after the player who hit it passed the runner in front of him (ESPN)
- UFC’s Conor McGregor may be the newest owner of MLB’s worst opening pitch ever (The Guardian)