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The Astros finished in first place in the AL West again in 2018 with a 103–59 record but lost the AL Championship Series to the Red Sox. [22] Houston returned to the World Series in 2019 and in 2021, losing to the Washington Nationals and the Atlanta Braves, respectively. The Astros won the 2022 World Series. [23] [24]
Catcher James McCann (in white uniform) of the Detroit Tigers using his right hand (obscured) to give signs to his pitcher, in a 2015 game against the Minnesota Twins.. In baseball, sign stealing is the act of observing the signs being signaled by the opposing catcher to the pitcher or a coach, and the subsequent relaying of those signals to members of one's own team.
Actually probably just one, the Houston Astros. The 2022 Astros’ similarity and dissimilarity to the 2017 team is the source of well-deserved fascination and conversation. There are two reasons ...
In 2018 the Astros renewed Bregman's contract at $599,000 – an increase of $60,000. [88] In June he was named AL Player of the Month, after batting .306/.372/.713 in 108 at bats, with 11 home runs and 30 RBIs (a new Astros record for June). [89] He became the second Astros third baseman to win the award, along with Art Howe (May 1981). [90]
Valdez, a beguiling lefty who burst out of Houston’s star-making player development operation in 2018, started two of the Astros wins in the World Series, including the clinching Game 6.
After an investigation by MLB, Astros manager A. J. Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow were each suspended for one year from MLB. In addition, the Astros were fined $5 million and lost their first- and second-round draft picks for the 2020 and 2021 MLB drafts. After the news broke, Astros owner Jim Crane fired both Hinch and Lunhow. Hinch ...
A Georgia grand jury indicted three men in November 1970 on charges of six counts of armed robbery each: McKinley Rogers, James Henry Hall and Houston J. Hammond. Only Hammond was in police ...
During Richardson's nine-year stewardship, Houston would post only four .500 or above records (1969; 1972–74). On July 11, 1975, with Houston at 32–58 and lodged in last place in the National League West Division, Richardson was fired and soon replaced by Smith, who returned to the Astros after a stint as an executive with the New York Yankees.