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Astros and lost
They led the Wild Card by 1. 5 games over San Francisco and Houston on September 25, and both of those teams lost that day, giving the Cubs a chance at increasing the lead to a commanding 2. 5 games with only eight games remaining in the season, but reliever LaTroy Hawkins blew a save to the Mets, and the Cubs lost the game in extra innings, a defeat that seemingly deflated the team, as they proceeded to drop 6 of their last 8 games as the Astros won the Wild Card.
Surgery was done to save his life, but the Astros had lost their ace pitcher after a 10 – 4 start with a stingy 1. 89 ERA.
An Astros lead was lost when Bob Boone hit a two out single in the second, but the Astros tied the game in the sixth with an Alan Ashby single scoring Denny Walling.
A dramatic season end included wins in 10 of their last 12 games, but the Astros missed a playoff appearance when they lost the final game of the season to the Atlanta Braves.
The Astros lost five Clemens starts by scores of 1 – 0.
However, the Astros lost all three of those starts by a 1 – 0 score in extra innings.
While he has two championship rings with the 1999 – 2000 Yankees, Clemens has also been on the losing end of four World Series ( 1986 Red Sox, 2001 and 2003 Yankees, and 2005 Astros ), which is tied with Tom Glavine and John Smoltz ( who were both on the Braves when they lost the ' 91, ' 92, ' 96 and ' 99 World Series ) for the most among active players.
Ryan got a no-decision as his Astros lost in 12 innings.
The Los Angeles Dodgers then lost a one-game playoff-and thus the division championship-to the Astros.
He lost a narrow vote for the Cy Young Award to the Astros ' Mike Scott.
He then pitched 10 shutout innings in Game 3 of the NLCS and the Astros won 1 – 0, though they lost the series to the Philadelphia Phillies, 3 – 2.
During the playoffs, however, the Astros lost the NLDS to the San Diego Padres, 3 – 1.
The Astros then lost the National League Championship Series to the Philadelphia Phillies.
Marichal won in his first game back, 2 – 1 vs. the Astros on September 9, ( the same day Koufax pitched his perfect game vs. the Cubs ,) but lost his last three decisions as the Giants slumped in the season's final week.
In 2005, the Braves lost to the Houston Astros, with the finale taking eighteen innings to decide in the 2005 NLDS.
The day before, Koosman had lost to the Houston Astros to fall to 9-8 ; he would win eight of his final nine decisions.
In the off-season, the Astros traded starting pitcher Claude Osteen to the Cardinals, and lost pitching ace Don Wilson, who died from carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 29 on January 5, 1975.
The Astros lost the series, 4 games to 2, but those two Astros ' victories were courtesy of Scott's overwhelming starting pitching performances in Games 1 and 4.
Instead, they were forced to play the Astros in a one game playoff – which they lost.
Under his leadership in the last 12 games of the 2006 season, the Astros won 10 and lost 2 putting them a game and half behind the Division winners.
The remaining five teams were separated by as few as one-and-one-half games in the standings on August 18, despite the Houston Astros team having lost 20 of its first 24 games.

Astros and first
alt = A baseball player standing at first base with his glove, wearing a red jersey with the word " Astros " in front
The first deal came days after the World Series, when the Marlins traded outfielder Moisés Alou to the Houston Astros for pitchers Oscar Hernandez and Manuel Barrios.
1967 saw first baseman Eddie Mathews join the Astros.
Cedeno made his first All-Star game in 1972 and became the first Astros player in team history to hit for the cycle in August versus the Reds.
The Astros finished the strike-shortened season at 84-69, their first winning season.
Richard became the first Astros pitcher to start an All-Star game.
The Astros won the first two games of that series and the two teams were tied for the division lead.
The Astros would however win the one-game playoff 7-1, and advance to their first post-season.
The rookie gave up a run in the first inning, then held the Astros at bay until the sixth inning.
Needing a win to get to Mike Scott ( who had been dominant in the series ) in Game 7, the Astros jumped off to a 3 – 0 lead in the first inning but neither team would score again until the 9th inning.
Off the field, in 1994, the Astros hired one of the first African American general managers, former franchise player Bob Watson.
The Astros won a wild card berth on the final day of the regular season, becoming the first team since the world champion 1914 Boston Braves to qualify for the postseason after being 15 games under. 500.
The 2010 season was the first season as Astros manager for Brad Mills, who was previously the bench coach of the Boston Red Sox.
On September 17, the Astros clinched their first 100-loss season in franchise history, On September 28, the Astros ended the season with an 8-0 home loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.
In a memorable NLCS, with four of the five games going into extra innings, they fell behind 2 – 1 but battled back to squeeze past the Houston Astros on a tenth-inning, game-winning hit by center fielder Garry Maddox, and the city celebrated its first pennant in 30 years.
On October 9, 2005, Clemens made his first relief appearance since 1984, entering as a pinch hitter in the 15th, then pitching three innings to help the Astros defeat the Atlanta Braves in the longest postseason game in MLB history.
The Astros went on to lose all four games of the franchise's first World Series to the Chicago White Sox.
* 1986 – Jim Deshaies of the Houston Astros sets the major-league record by striking out the first eight batters of the game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
On June 13, 2012, Matt Cain pitched the first perfect game in the 129 year history of the franchise, against the Houston Astros at AT & T Park.
One of the few bright spots on the team during the early years was first baseman and slugger Nate Colbert, an expansion draftee from the Houston Astros and still the Padres ' career leader in home runs.
Their lone victory made them the first Texas MLB team to win a World Series game, the Houston Astros having been swept in their 2005 World Series appearance.
On April 23, 1964, in the top of the ninth inning of a scoreless game in Colt Stadium, Rose reached first base on an error and scored on another error to make Houston Astros Ken Johnson the first pitcher to lose a complete game no-hitter.

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