Scott Vogel

In the end, the healthiest team won. By Scott Vogel They are not infallible, as it turns out, and neither are those conspicuous prognosticators who’d once confidently predicted a repeat. There will be no parades this year, no World Series rings, no…

Houston is now just one game from elimination. It will always seem to us like a game of what-ifs: what if Andrew Benintendi hadn’t caught Alex Bregman’s liner in the bottom of the ninth? What if umpire Joe West and the mandarins at TBS hadn’t assumed…

Houston falters for a second night, now trails Boston two games to one. After two nights in which the road to the Astros’ fall was paved with strange, fluke-y moments, faithful fans might well be forgiven for concluding that the Red Sox got lucky in…

Houston’s greatest asset in its bid to triumph over Boston? Boston itself. To say that it was not Boston’s finest hour is to risk egregious understatement. Playing in game one of the American League Championship Series on Saturday night, the Red Sox…

Gerrit Cole’s fabled command fails him at Fenway. Just as the Red Sox had the day before, Sunday saw the Astros turn in a less than championship performance at Fenway Park, as Houston fell to Boston 7-5 in Game 2 of the American League Championship…

The ’Stros take their first step toward a historic second championship, sweeping the Indians in three games. No one wants to think it, let alone say it, but the truth is being told anyway. In annihilating the Indians 11-3 Monday at Progressive Field…

Gerrit Cole pitches a 12-strikeout beauty and Marwin Gonzalez goes 4 for 4 as Houston takes a 2-0 lead in the series against Cleveland. Gerrit Cole became just the second pitcher in MLB history to strike out 12 batters without walking a single one as…

Solid pitching and four homers lift Houston over the Indians in their first playoff game of the season. The Houston Astros, baseball’s reigning World Series champions, played like they’re hungry for more on Friday afternoon at Minute Maid Park,…

Want to see what the country’s richest enclave and greatest baseball team have in common? This is the month. No town in America adores great food, juicy gossip, palace intrigue, obscene wealth, and the Astros quite like our own, but there’s a slice…

Exotic morsels steamed, baked, and fried at Yauatcha—and meals quiet, convenient, and nachos-free at Potente. To hear critics tell it, quality Chinese food was nonexistent in London prior to the arrival of chef Alan Yau, who, after first transforming…

This year, the stories of a city and its team became intertwined. On Sunday, August 13, the country was still transfixed by the murder, a few days prior, of a counterdemonstrator at a white nationalist march in Charlottesville, and the political…

A traveler makes his peace with Dodger town. Having witnessed part of the most recent World Series from a seat in Dodger Stadium—a doubly uncomfortable experience for anyone who is 1) an Astros fan, and 2) reckless enough to consume a Dodger Dog and…

The Astros played to raise us up, to boost our hopes, to give us reasons to cheer again. WORLD CHAMPIONS. #EarnedHistoryA post shared by Houston Astros (@astrosbaseball) on Nov 1, 2017 at 9:11pm PDT The Houston Astros are World Series champions. The…

The small screen has never been smaller. A post shared by Houston Astros (@astrosbaseball) on Oct 31, 2017 at 6:24pm PDT There are really two stories of game six of the World Series. You are hearing quite a lot about one of them, namely that the…

In their season finale at Minute Maid Park, the Astros took us on one more unbelievable ride. There are no words. There are literally no words. Which in this case is fine, because even if we found the words, we’d be too hoarse and exhausted to utter…

A game that could have easily gone Houston’s way, goes the other way all too easily. The most heartbreaking losses are the ones that should have been wins, and so it was with the Astros’ 6-2 defeat by the Los Angeles Dodgers last night in game 4 of…

Especially tonight. Generally speaking, we are not an obnoxious sort of fan. We don’t boo players on opposing teams, much less shout expletives from the Crawford Boxes about other people’s mothers. It’s just, well, unseemly. Loving baseball and…

No stage is too big for this team. Winning a World Series game took Houston 55 years, but by God, it was worth the wait. Unless you’ve tried to beat Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium—where the fans’ constant booing of opposing teams’ players borders on…

Stellar pitching by L.A. ace Clayton Kershaw proved too much for Houston in the teams’ first meeting. A post shared by Houston Astros (@astrosbaseball) on Oct 24, 2017 at 5:11pm PDT It was a night of drama and memories, majesty and zaniness, but…

As well they should “They look nervous out there,” said the groundskeeper at Dodger Stadium, gazing down from the top deck as the men in blue lazily took their turns at batting practice. “Must be the weather.” It was early evening on Monday, and yet…