Astros control destiny as season winds down
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HOUSTON - The Houston Astros are one win from completing an amazing late-season playoff push. Roy Oswalt became the NL&#39;s first 20-game winner, and Jeff Kent and Craig Biggio each homered twice, giving the
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A couple of new Killer Bs have the Houston Astros one win away from ending 43 seasons of playoff failure. Carlos Beltran hit a two-run homer and Brandon Backe pitched six solid innings in his
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The surging Houston Astros have put their vacation plans on hold. Pinch-hitter Mike Lamb's infield single drove in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning, lifting the Astros to their sixth straight victory, 5-4 over the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night.
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Carlos Beltran homered twice, had four  hits and drove in five runs as the Houston Astros moved on to  the National League Championship Series with a 12-3 Game Five  pounding of the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field on Monday.
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Housto Astros&#39; Carlos Beltran celebrates his solo homerun in the fifth inning of Game 5 of the National League Division Series against the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field in Atlanta, Monday Oct. 11, 2004.
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ATLANTA - The Houston Astros try to move a step closer to winning a playoff series for the first time, taking a 1-0 lead into Thursday's Game 2 against the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field.    The NL East champion Braves can't afford to go down 0-2 in a best-of-five series heading to Minute Maid Park, where the Astros have an 18-game winning streak...
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Carlos Beltran smiled as he presented the answer to all those years of Houston Astros playoff angst. &quot;I wasn&#39;t here,&quot; he said.
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The Houston Astros not only tied the National League Championship Series with a 6-5 triumph yesterday over the St. Louis Cardinals.
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Houston is hoping the future Hall-of-Famer keeps taking them along for the ride as the Astros continue their playoff push against Cincinnati at Minute Maid Park.
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In a game featuring countless years of playoff futility for both teams, though with vastly different barometers of success, the Atlanta Braves could not withstand the onslaught of the âKiller Bâsâ as the Houston Astros took the decisive Game 5 of
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Even before the Astros lost the first two games of the National League Championship Series in St. Louis, they downplayed the notion that their best
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Roy Oswalt became the NL&#39;s first 19-game winner, and the Houston Astros stayed close in the wild-card race with a 10-3 victory over the St.
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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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Roger Clemens came out of brief  retirement earlier this year with one goal in mind...to lead  his hometown Houston Astros to post-season glory for the first  time.
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The Houston Astros, down 0-1, put their hopes in a pitcher untested in the postseason when they give Pete Munro the ball (8:19 p.m., Fox).
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Roger Clemens and the powerful Houston lineup made sure the Astros got off to a good start, a 9-3 victory, in their quest to finally win a playoff series.
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The Houston Astros won their 19th straight game at home and are one game from winning their first playoff series in 42 years.