Community Picks: Houston Astros 0% vs Texas Rangers 0%

The first-place Astros trounced the first-place Twins on Wednesday by a 17-6 score, completing a sweep in the first leg of the team’s 10-game road trip. DH George Springer had quite a day, batting 4-for-4 with a pair of home runs and a pair of walks with four runs scored. The Astros improved to 38-16 with Wednesday’s win. Continue to Article

May 31, 2017 5:31:pm EST

The coronation of Minnesota Twins pitching knight Jose Berrios stalled Tuesday night at Target Field, his sedan chair lapped by the relentless Houston Astros, who secured another win and pinned the first loss of 2017 on the promising right-hander. It is wholly unfair to expect a 23-year-old still earning his big-league bona fides to carry the swagger of a rotation stalwart, where losing streaks, hitting slumps and crises of confidence die every fifth day. “I’m not going to put ‘stopper’ along with Jose’s name at this juncture,” manager Paul Molitor said after a meek 7-2 defeat, his team’s third straight. But here are the Twins at the end of another futile homestand, their wheezing bullpen hemorrhaging Continue to Article

May 31, 2017 12:55:am EST

Fans celebrated when Ubaldo Jimenez was taken out of the Orioles rotation. On top of the current losing streak, the Orioles have also lost 13 of their last 16 games and they are now just two games above .500 for the season. Nothing more clearly illustrates what a disaster this particular game was than this: After all of the fan excitement about Ubaldo Jimenez getting bounced from the starting rotation in favor of Alec Asher - at least for now - the game still ended up with Jimenez pitching in the third inning. Continue to Article

May 28, 2017 5:58:pm EST