Steamrolling Houston flattens Atlanta
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ATLANTA - Major League Baseball&#39;s regular season officially closed last Sunday. Somebody forgot to tell the Houston Astros. The team that came from nowhere to capture the National League wild card came from
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Carlos Beltran went two for four with a homer and scored three times Friday night as Houston downed Pittsburgh, 8-6. Craig Biggio, Jose Vizcaino and Jeff Bagwell also homered for
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Roger Clemens lost in what might have been the final start of his career, and the Atlanta Braves ended Houston's nine-game winning streak with a 4-1 victory Friday night that hurt the Astros' postseason hopes.
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HOUSTON - The Astros&#39; pain was the Braves&#39; gain yesterday as the first-round NL playoff series shifts back to Atlanta for a decisive Game 5 today.
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Rafael Furcal hit a two-run homer in the 11th inning as the Atlanta Braves beat the Houston Astros 4-2 to even their first-round National League playoff series at one game apiece.
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Allan Houston started the game on the bench, and finished it on the bench. In between he was so-so, with more than a couple of shots that rattled around inside the rim before
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Tracy McGrady had 25 points and Yao Ming scored 23 to lead the Houston Rockets past the Atlanta Hawks 92-69 on Wednesday night. It was the biggest blowout of the season for Houston, which won for the fourth time in five games.
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Carlos Beltran hit a two-run homer and Brandon Backe pitched six solid innings in his postseason debut as the Houston Astros got their 19th straight home win, 8-5 over Atlanta yesterday for a 2-1 lead in their NL Divisional Playoffs series.
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ATLANTA - It took 43 years, but the Houston Astros are finally postseason winners. Carlos Beltran hit two more homers and drove in five runs, while original Killer B's Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell chipped in during a five-run seventh inning that carried the Astros to a 12-3 rout of the Atlanta Braves on Monday night in the deciding Game 5 of their first-round NL playoff series...
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Brandon Backe pitched six strong innings and Morgan Ensberg drove in three runs to secure the Houston Astros an 8-5 divisional playoff victory over the Atlanta Braves Saturday.
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Carlos Beltran hit a pair of homers and drove in four to lead Houston to an easy 15-7 win over the Chicago Cubs in a slugfest Friday.
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The Houston Astros, who are battling for a wild-card playoff spot, powered their way to a season-best sixth straight victory yesterday.
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Adam LaRoche crushed a game-tying  three-run homer and J.D. Drew slapped a ninth-inning RBI single  to give the Braves a 6-5 comeback victory over the Houston  Astros on Sunday.
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Three Rockets notch double-doubles in Houston's 119-113 overtime win against the Minnesota Timberwolves, on Friday.
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The Atlanta Braves don&#39;t have the dominating pitching or explosive hitting of previous years, but they do have a penchant for scratching out wins, as they did Sunday, beating
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - The Houston Astros blew a 5-2 lead to lose for the first time at home in 20 games, a crucial defeat that forced a fifth game finale in Atlanta on Monday.
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Yao Ming wouldn&#39;t let the Rockets lose another home game, especially to the reeling Atlanta Hawks. Yao scored 23 points _ including seven during a pivotal third-quarter run _ and blocked a season-high five