Ankiel, recently cut loose by the last-place Houston Astros, received a smattering of cheers each at-bat.
To find the answer, the Houston Astros are boldly going where few teams have gone before.
Billionaire Drayton McLane has yet again announced he wants to sell the Houston Astros.
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The largest baseball deals were for Citizens Bank Park (Philadelphia Phillies) and Minute Maid Park (Houston Astros).
It was telling that ESPN selected the Houston Astros-Texas Rangers game for its Sunday night opener instead.
Wilpon stepped through the tunnel and onto the field, where the Houston Astros were finishing batting practice.
And in 2005, the No. 13 Chicago White Sox defeated the No. 12 Houston Astros in the World Series.
Matt Cain of the Giants threw the second perfect game of the season Thursday night against the Houston Astros.
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Across the country, teams like the Texas Rangers, Houston Astros, and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are inking lucrative deals.
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Enron purchased the naming rights to the Houston Astros stadium just before an accounting scandal bankrupted the company in 2001.
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As of May 16, only the hopeless Houston Astros have won fewer games in the American League than the stars-R-us Angels have.
Walter and company had the option of purchasing the Houston Astros, a lackluster franchise but one in the fourth-biggest market in America.
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Pettitte was now a member of the Houston Astros and confirmed that he had injected himself with the performance enhancing substance once.
The biggest name they landed was Houston Astros pitcher Rhiner Cruz, a Dominican whose mother has spent time in Spain for work.
The Houston Astros and the Chicago White Sox may do the same.
The Cards didn't make it to the Series, but they did get some poetic justice following their NLCS loss to the Houston Astros.
Marcum headed to New York for a cortisone shot in his right shoulder while the Mets were beating the Houston Astros 7-5 Wednesday.
For the Mets, too, the risk of implosion is real--witness the Houston Astros scrambling for a new partner after Enron blew up in 2002.
The 33-year-old right-hander went a combined 4-2 with a 3.10 ERA in 67 relief appearances last season with the Houston Astros and Toronto Blue Jays.
Robinson Cano homered and Eduardo Nunez scored the go-ahead run after a sixth-inning double to send New York past the Houston Astros 5-4 on Wednesday night.
The 2013 Major League Baseball championship season officially kicks off tonight with an Opening Night game between the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros at 8:05 p.m.
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Obama also played with U.S Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Jim Crane, a Democratic donor who owns the resort and the Houston Astros, according to reports.
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The top vote-getter on the 2013 ballot was longtime Houston Astros second baseman Craig Biggio, who racked up more than 3, 000 hits in a two-decade career.
Then there is Pam Gardner , the Houston Astros' president of business operations, who successfully changed the team's stadium name from Enron Field to Minute Maid Park.
Patrick waves before throwing out a ceremonial first pitch before a baseball game between the Houston Astros and the Chicago Cubs in Chicago, Sunday, July 1, 2012.
Can you imagine the Houston Astros deciding on their own to move from the National League Central to the American League West to join the Texas Rangers?
But a statement from fellow pitcher Andy Pettitte, a close friend of Clemens' who was his teammate on the New York Yankees and Houston Astros, undercut some of Clemens' denials.
Robinson Cano homered and Eduardo Nunez scored the go-ahead run after a sixth-inning double to send the New York Yankees past the Houston Astros 5-4 on Wednesday night.
Former Houston Astros second baseman Craig Biggio received the most votes, appearing on 68.2% of the 569 ballots cast, but still fell short of the 75% needed for induction.
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Humber threw four wild pitches in giving up four runs, and the Houston Astros failed to take advantage of Hiroki Kuroda's rough start in a 7-4 loss Tuesday night.
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