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Some Houston Astros star players are struggling this season, and that has been reflected in reduced player ratings in a popular video game. “MLB The Show 20” assigns players overall ratings for the game. Anyone who has an 85-or-higher …
Houston Astros stars Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman were hit by pitches in consecutive at-bats during Tuesday’s scrimmage against the Kansas City Royals. Is that a sign of things to come this season? Maybe, but in this case it seems highly …
Carlos Correa offered an explanation last week for why Jose Altuve did not want his teammates tearing off his jersey after the second baseman belted a walk-off home run in Game 6 of the 2019 ALCS, and Altuve may have tried to provide further evidence …
Carlos Correa has decided to dig his heels in and defend the Houston Astros against some of the criticism they are facing, and former MLB star Adam Jones found one thing Correa said about the scandal particularly entertaining. Jones, who now plays …
Cody Bellinger is among the most dissatisfied players in MLB over the Houston Astros’ cheating and the team’s lack of remorse and penalties from MLB. Bellinger took a shot at both the Astros and Red Sox in January over the allegations. He …
Jose Altuve was one of a number of Houston Astros players who apologized for the team’s sign-stealing scandal on Thursday, but one local news station in Los Angeles clearly is not ready to forgive the star infielder. Altuve and Alex Bregman …
The Houston Astros are suddenly sorry for cheating their way to a World Series title in 2017. Astros owner Jim Crane said last month that he would get his players together at the start of spring training to apologize “with a strong statement as …
Kansas City Royals second baseman Whit Merrifield made the first All-Star appearance of his career last year, but he feels it would have been the second had it not been for all of the cheating that went on in Houston. Merrifield spoke openly about …
CC Sabathia isn’t doing much to hide his disgust toward the Houston Astros or the team’s response to the cheating scandal. At the team’s fan event on Saturday, many Astros players made their first public comments on the matter since …
An interview Ken Rosenthal conducted with Jose Altuve after the Houston Astros won the ALCS last season gained widespread attention on Thursday, but the reporter insists he did not suspect that Altuve was covering anything up when the two spoke amid …
The sports world went wild on Thursday with allegations that some of the Houston Astros’ top players wore electronic buzzing devices that communicated what pitch was coming during their at-bats. The allegations of this extremely advanced form …
Jose Altuve denies that he wore an electronic buzzer during games as he has been accused of. On Thursday, there days after MLB handed out punishments to the Houston Astros for cheating, accusations flew that some of the Astros’ best players …
An interview from Jose Altuve after his huge home run to send the Houston Astros to the World Series last season, coupled with the infielder’s behavior after the homer, have fueled more speculation about the Astros illegally using an electronic …
The Houston Astros won a dramatic ALCS Game 6 in the bottom of the 9th off Aroldis Chapman, but the New York Yankees made a strategic blunder that contributed to the 6-4 Astros win. The Yankees had tied the game in the top of the 9th inning on a …
The Houston Astros look to have narrowly averted disaster before their third game of the MLB season. Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle reported on Saturday that star infielder Jose Altuve was struck by a line drive off the bat of teammate Yuli …
Jose Altuve is a six-time All-Star, former MVP, and World Series champion, but he’s probably won’t be getting many accolades for his product pitching. On Wednesday, the Houston Astros star sent a cryptic tweet indicating that he was fed …
