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Caption Close MIAMI --- Even if they had lost Tuesday, the Astros would have secured their best 40-game start in franchise history. That fact alone is something to behold. Through a quarter of their season, they've been the best team in baseball. Behind a 12-2 clobbering of the Miami Marlins on Tuesday night, the Astros improved to 28-12, two wins better than their next-best first quarter of any season. In Wednesday afternoon's series finale at Marlins Park they have a chance to move to 17 games over .500 for the first time since the end of the 2004 season. The next-best team in the majors is two games back. No other American League West team has even a winning record. Things are going so well Continue to Article

May 16, 2017 5:13:pm EST

Second baseman Jose Altuve is back in the Houston Astros' lineup after giving his team a scare because his special Mother's Day shoes were too snug. Altuve began limping enough in the ninth inning of Sunday night's game at the New York Yankees that manager A.J. Hinch replaced him with a pinch runner. "He looked uncomfortable with his lower half — ankle, calf, hamstring," Hinch said Monday. Continue to Article

May 15, 2017 6:43:pm EST

By Larry Fine NEW YORK (Reuters) - Derek Jeter completed the top 10 list of numbers retired by the New York Yankees when Major League Baseball's most successful franchise retired his No. 2 in an emotional ceremony on Sunday. Jeter's No. 2 was the last single digit number still available for players on the Yankees, winners of a record 27 World Series titles, five of which featured Jeter, who walked away from the diamond in 2014. "I played here for 20 years and I learned that time flies and that memories fade, but family is forever," Jeter told the sold-out crowd of 48,000 that frequently broke into a familiar "Der-ek Je-ter" chant that rocked Yankee Stadium. Continue to Article

May 14, 2017 8:53:pm EST

The New York Yankees retired the No. 2 jersey of former shortstop Derek Jeter during a ceremony before Sunday's game against the Houston Astros. Jeter retired after the 2014 season. The Yankees also unveiled a plaque in the stadium's Monument Park. Continue to Article

May 14, 2017 6:30:pm EST

The New York Yankees are hosting the Houston Astros to cap off Derek Jeter Week in The Bronx, and boy was their opening game fun. Let’s start at the end of Houston’s 3-2 victory, because, really, this throw from Jake Marisnick with two outs in the ninth inning is all anyone is going to want to talk about. The Astros entered the bottom half of the final frame trailing 3-1, but with a few of their best hitters due up. Continue to Article

May 11, 2017 11:21:pm EST