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His average set the Astros record for one calendar month—surpassing Richard Hidalgo's .476 average in September of 2000—and he won his second AL Player of the Month Award. Yuli Gurriel won the AL Rookie of the Month Award in July, and he led all AL rookies with .565 slugging percentage, .899 OPS, 28 hits, nine doubles, and 20 RBI.
The 2017 American League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball's 2017 postseason pitting the second-seeded Houston Astros against the fourth-seeded New York Yankees for the American League pennant and the right to face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2017 World Series. The Astros defeated the Yankees in seven ...
MLB found the Astros used technology to cheat during their 2017 season and suspended Hinch and Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow for one season; [163] the Astros fired Luhnow and Hinch the same day. Alex Cora , who was the Astros' bench coach in 2017 and the Red Sox' manager from 2018 to 2019, parted ways with the Red Sox after the scandal broke.
The Astros used this method throughout the 2017 season, and part of the 2018 season. [3] MLB and the Astros opened an investigation into this sign stealing allegation . [ 4 ] MLB found the Astros used technology to cheat during their 2017 season and suspended Astros' manager A. J. Hinch and Astros' general manager Jeff Luhnow for one year; [ 5 ...
As far-fetched as the idea seemed at the time, the Astros are now on the cusp of history, years past their seasons of losing 105 games. A mocked 2014 Sports Illustrated cover predicted the Houston ...
The Houston Astros rallied to beat the Boston Red Sox, 5–4, in Game 4 of the American League Division Series and won their first postseason series since 2005. Boston took a 3–2 lead in the fifth inning on a two-run home run by Andrew Benintendi off Justin Verlander, though, making his first relief appearance in a 13-year career.
The cover boldly predicted that the Astros would be World Series champions in 2017, and was backed up by a story from Ben Reiter .
The Astros in total have completed 61 seasons in Major League Baseball, qualifying for the postseason sixteen times and reaching the World Series five times (2005, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2022) with two world championships (2017, 2022). The team was established as an expansion franchise in 1962, one of eight teams that was created in the decade.