Houston Astros 2023 spring schedule posted
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The Astros are scheduled to play 14 spring-training home games against a variety of popular, Grapefruit League opponents, and one home game vs. a World Baseball Classic opponent . Houston will play 29 official spring training games overall in Florida. For the month of July, Gurriel batted .398, .427 OBP, .837 SLG, 18 runs scored, seven doubles, 12 home runs, 31 RBIs over 24 games. Justin Verlander, having led the MLB in wins, went on to clinch his second American League Cy Young Award after an all-time historically dominant season alongside strikeout and ERA leader Gerrit Cole.
The Astros set a franchise record with 23 runs scored on August 10 at Camden Yards versus the Baltimore Orioles, In the 23–2 win, they also set the franchise record for extra base hits with 13, including six home runs. Three of the home runs came via rookie Yordan Álvarez, including a grand slam. With a career-high seven runs driven in, his total stood at 51 to establish the major league record for the first 45 games.
Game Thread 117, August 9th, 2019, 6:05 CDT. Astros vs Orioles
Verlander and Cole became the second teammate duo since Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling with the 2002 Arizona Diamondbacks to reach 300 strikeouts. J. Hinch as manager and Jeff Luhnow as general manager; both were fired in January 2020 after MLB investigators confirmed that the team had used electronics to steal opponents’ signs back in the 2017 regular season. The Astros will also face off against their West Palm Beach neighbors, the Washington Nationals,six times in 2023. The Astros will be the home team for three of those matchups (Mar. 5, Mar. 17, Mar 23). Álvarez' .655 slugging percentage and 1.067 on-base plus slugging percentage were both the highest in history for a qualified rookie, exceeding Shoeless Joe Jackson's 1.058 OPS during his 1911 rookie campaign .
He hit another home run the next night off Félix Hernández, homering for the fifth consecutive game and sixth home run in that span. Altuve was the first Astro to hit a home run in five consecutive games since Morgan Ensberg's franchise-record six consecutive games in 2006. Verlander, the starting pitcher, struck out eight of the first 10 batters that he faced and 11 of 20 overall.
Game Thread 90, July 11th, 2019, 7:10 CDT. Astros vs Rangers.
On August 4, Verlander struck out 10 batters over 6 innings in a 3–1 win over the Seattle Mariners. With this 10-K performance, Verlander surpassed 200 strikeouts in a season for the ninth time in his career. He joined Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson, Roger Clemens, Tom Seaver, Pedro Martinez, and Bob Gibson as the only pitchers with nine or more seasons of 200+ strikeouts. During a contest versus the St. Louis Cardinals on July 28, José Altuve homered for his 1,500th career hit, one of three hits in a 6–2 win that afternoon, in his 1,190th career game. The only players in the divisional play era to reach the milestone faster were Ichiro Suzuki, Wade Boggs, Kirby Puckett, Nomar Garciaparra, Tony Gwynn and Derek Jeter.
Highlights from the Astros home schedule include three games vs. both theNew York Mets(Feb. 25, Mar. 7, Mar. 18) andSt. The home schedule also includes a visit from theBoston Red Sox(Mar. 1) andAtlanta Braves(Mar. 3). Additionally, the Astros home schedule will include several weekend options, with two Friday games, three Saturday games and three Sunday games. We’ve posted the Houston Astros 2023 spring schedule, as the team prepares for another training camp at The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches in West Palm Beach, FL. On September 28, Verlander struck out Kole Calhoun of the Los Angeles Angels to register both his 3000th career strikeout and 300th on the season.
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Data from the 2019 Los Angeles Angels schedule includes home and road winning percentages, monthly win-loss data, team versus team totals, and score related splits. A 2019 Houston Astros schedule with dates for every regular season game played, opponents faced, a final score, and a cumulative record for the 2019 season. Data from the 2019 Houston Astros schedule includes home and road winning percentages, monthly win-loss data, team versus team totals, and score related splits. In the September 1 contest versus the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre, Justin Verlander pitched his third career no-hitter. He allowed one base-runner, a walk to Cavan Biggio in the first inning, and struck out 14 batters.
In April 9 game against the New York Yankees, José Altuve connected for his 100th career home run off Jonathan Loáisiga in a 6–3 win. Altuve became the 16th player in Astros history to reach 100 home runs. On April 12, Altuve connected for his second career grand slam, and first since 2014, in a 10–6 win over the Seattle Mariners.
Bullpen meltdown, dead bats, sink Astros in St Louis, 5-3
Yordan Alvarez also won Rookie of the Year after a history-making season, while Alex Bregman finished as a runner-up for the AL MVP. During the regular season the 2019 Houston Astrosscored the most runs on August 10, 2019 versus the Baltimore Orioles. The most runs scored against them was played on September 10, 2019 versus the Oakland Athletics.
In a 14–3 romp over the Colorado Rockies on August 7, Gurriel homered and tied J. On August 3, MLB named three Astros as winners of all three monthly awards for July, including Yuli Gurriel as AL Player of the Month, Gerrit Cole as AL Pitcher of the Month, and Yordan Álvarez as AL Rookie of the Month. On April 3 versus the Texas Rangers, Carlos Correa collected the 500th hit of his career. On March 24, 2019, the Astros signed right-handed pitcher Justin Verlander to a two-year, $66 million contract extension to keep him with Houston through the 2021 season. Please note that players may not be in the uniform of the correct team in these images. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.
However, they were defeated by the Washington Nationals in seven games in the World Series. Álvarez became the fourth player in MLB history to hit four home runs in his first five career games when he homered off Clayton Richard of the Toronto Blue Jays, joining Trevor Story, Yasiel Puig and Mike Jacobs. On June 23, Álvarez hit a 2-run home run for his seventh home run of the season in only 12 games, establishing an Astros franchise record. He also became the first player in MLB history to drive in 16 runs in his first 12 games. A 2019 Los Angeles Angels schedule with dates for every regular season game played, opponents faced, a final score, and a cumulative record for the 2019 season.
As such, the 2019 Astros are often regarded as one of the greatest baseball teams ever assembled. On June 9, Yordan Álvarez made his major league debut versus the Baltimore Orioles. The following game, Álvarez again homered, this time versus Matt Albers of the Milwaukee Brewers. He became the first Astro to homer in both of his first two games.
The 15 strikeouts tied Verlander's Minute Maid Park record, set earlier in the season on June 12 versus the Brewers. It was Cole's 12 consecutive decision won, dating back to May 27, with the Astros going 16–2 in those 18 starts. On September 22, the Astros clinched their third straight AL West title. For the first time in franchise history, the Astros finished the season with the best record in baseball and defeated the Tampa Bay Rays in the Division Series by a margin of three games to two. They then defeated the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series by a margin of four games to two, winning the pennant and a trip to the World Series for the second time in three years.
On September 8, Gerrit Cole struck out 15 batters over eight innings in a 2–1 victory over the Seattle Mariners. He became just the second pitcher to strike out 14 or more hitters in three consecutive games, joining Pedro Martínez in 1999. It was the sixth outing of the season of at least 10 strikeouts and no walks for Cole, tying the major league record.
The Astros' only runs came on a two-run home run by Abraham Toro in the top of the ninth inning. This was Verlander's second career no-hitter against the Blue Jays, making him just the third pitcher of the modern era to no-hit the same team twice, and the first to pitch both no-hitters against the same team on the road. He is the sixth pitcher to throw three or more no-hitters in his career. On September 7, Verlander continued his domanance, reaching 32 consecutive batters retired, a streak that established an Astros franchise record and was tied by teammate Ryan Pressly in 2022.
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