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Houston Astros ace Dallas Keuchel, who is off to a 7-0 starts this season, is headed to the disabled list with a pinched nerve in his neck, according to multiple reports. Keuchel, who won the Cy Young Award in 2015, has a 1.84 ERA, 54 strikeouts and has held opposing hitters to a .186 batting average in his nine starts this season. The Astros expect Keuchel to miss only one start, and the DL move will be retroactive to Wednesday. The left-hander was scheduled to pitch Monday. Keuchel pitched just five innings in his last start -- a 12-2 win over the Marlins on Tuesday -- allowed two runs on four hits while striking out five. The Astros will recall left-hander Ashur Tolliver from Triple-A Fresno Continue to Article

May 20, 2017 11:55:am EST

You’ve seen them before: World Boxing Organization championship belts, usually hoisted above a prizefighter’s head after a victorious bout. The two title belts are the brainchild of 40-year-old designated hitter Carlos Beltran, who joined Houston this off-season as a free agent. Continue to Article

May 19, 2017 12:14:pm EST

The Boston Celtics won the NBA draft lottery on Tuesday night, thanks to a 2013 trade with the now-decrepit Brooklyn Nets, who finished with the league’s worst record. Such a scenario could never happen in Major League Baseball, which neither allows trading picks nor has a lottery, though both ideas get floated from time to time. With so many MLB teams going through rebuilding programs in recent years, hand-wringing over those intentional plunges into 95-or 100-loss territory has been common, never moreso than when the Astros received the first pick an unprecedented three straight times from 2012 to '14, after losing at least 106 games in each of the previous three seasons. Continue to Article

May 17, 2017 1:19:pm EST