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Josés Urquidy and Abreu got the job done for Houston in yet another smooth ALDS victory.

Carlos Correa was blunt, disappointed and optimistic when he spoke to his Minnesota Twins teammates following their elimination from the playoffs. The Houston Astros — Minnesota's newest postseason nemesis — are going to the AL Championship Series for the seventh straight year, and they are the standard the Twins have to exceed in order to make more than a brief appearance in October. The Astros not only produced more clutch hits themselves — with 10 homers accounting...

The Astros will meet the Texas Rangers in the ALCS starting on Sunday.

José Abreu hits two home runs as Houston moves to within a win of a seventh straight ALCS appearance.

José Abreu hit a three-run homer for Houston in a four-run first inning against Sonny Gray and piled on with a two-run shot in the ninth, powering the Astros past the Minnesota Twins 9-1 on Tuesday for a 2-1 lead in their AL Division Series. Yordan Alvarez hit his fourth home run in three games and Alex Bregman had a homer and an RBI single for the defending World Series champions, who took charge from their first at-bat and moved within one win of a seventh consecutive AL Championship Ser...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — José Abreu hit a three-run homer for Houston in a four-run first inning against Sonny Gray and piled on with a two-run shot in the ninth, powering the Astros past the Minnesota Twins 9-1 on Tuesday for a 2-1 lead in their AL Division Series.

The Twins will face elimination in Game 4 on Wednesday.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Late-afternoon shadows made the ball difficult to pick up, and Minnesota’s Sonny Gray presented a tough opponent on the mound. The Houston Astros just powered their way through and produced yet another October masterpiece. José Abreu hit a three-run homer for Houston in a four-run first inning against Gray and piled on […]

With two games at home and Sonny Gray on the mound, the Twins' route to the AL Championship Series seemed sunny and bright. Now? Everywhere they look, there are shadows. Shadows made Cristian Javier's slider difficult to detect, the Twins said Tuesday, though the Astros had far less trouble picking up Gray's pitches in the midafternoon sunlight. Suddenly, a team that came home dreaming of the ...

Minnesota fell into a four-run hole in the first inning and never recovered.