Houston Astros News

Milwaukee Brewers farmhand Manny Parra pitched a perfect game Monday night, leading the Nashville Sounds to a 3-0 victory over Round Rock in the Triple-A Pacific Coast League. Making his second start at Triple-A, Parra struck out 11 and threw 77 of his 107 pitches for strikes against the Express, a Houston Astros affiliate.

Ben Sheets won his fifth consecutive decision, Prince Fielder hit his NL-leading 27th homer and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Houston Astros 6-1 on Monday night. The NL Central-leading Brewers have won 10 of 12 since being no-hit by the Tigers’ Justin Verlander on June 12. The Astros, on the last leg of a nine-game [...]

Craig Biggio says he’s more than ready to reach 3,000 hits. To do it in Milwaukee, he’ll need to have a very productive game on Tuesday. The 41-year-old Biggio was not in the lineup on Monday night and was also scheduled to take Wednesday off in the Houston Astros’ three-game set against the Milwaukee Brewers.

Ken Griffey Jr. capped his Seattle homecoming with two home runs, passing Mark McGwire for seventh place on the career list in the Cincinnati Reds’ 3-2 loss to the Mariners on Sunday. Griffey connected off Miguel Batista for his 583rd and 584th home runs, tying and then passing McGwire. Ben Broussard hit a two-out, two-run [...]

Craig Biggio’s 2,996th career hit was a tiebreaking RBI double in the 10th inning as the Houston Astros got a wild 12-9 victory against the Texas Rangers to avoid a series sweep. After the Astros bullpen blew another save — allowing six runs in the eighth and ninth innings — Biggio’s one-out hustling double scored [...]

Roger Clemens says he’ll do anything to help the New York Yankees, and he proved it Sunday by coming out of the bullpen for the first time in 23 years to face Barry Bonds. Clemens made his first regular-season appearance as a reliever since he was a rookie with the Red Sox in 1984, walking [...]

Jamey Wright overcame shaky control to win for the first time in almost a year, and Michael Young had four RBIs to lead the Texas Rangers over the Houston Astros 7-2 Saturday. Gerald Laird hit his fifth homer of the season in the eighth for Texas, which has won a season-high four straight. The Rangers [...]

Sammy Sosa hit career home run No. 601, the first of three homers the Texas Rangers hit in an eight-run fifth inning outburst en route to a 11-3 victory over the Houston Astros on Friday night. Kevin Millwood (4-6) won his second straight start after going seven games without a victory since April 13 with [...]

Nice of Sammy Sosa to get us in the mood. In the lead-up to Barry Bonds hammerin’ Hank, we get Sosa in The 600…