The Houston Astros are a season-best 11 games over .500 after stringing together five straight victories but an unexpected rotation shakeup on Monday presents a new challenge.

Pena and the Astros open a series with the Athletics, who are trying to pull themselves out of an awful slump where they went 7-24 over a 31-game stretch. But they’ve won six of their last 10, including a three-game sweep of the Royals.

It’s Monday, June 16 and the Astros (41-30) take on the Athletics (29-44). Lance McCullers is slated to take the mound for Houston against Mitch Spence for the Athletics. The Athletics are flying high. They are coming off a series sweep of the Kansas City Royals, including a 4-0 shutout in game two of the series.

Nick Kurtz hit a solo ninth-inning homer to rally the Athletics to a 3-2 win and three-game sweep of the Kansas City Royals.

H unter Brown (3-1, 1.16 ERA) starts for the Houston Astros against Kansas City and Kris Bubic (2-1, 1.45). Houston, which has been shut out in first two games of series, will try to avoid being ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The baseball bounced off Jeremy ... Isaac Paredes pulled into third base, the first Houston Astros runner to arrive there all evening. It gave an offense life in the eighth ...

The White Sox have two pitchers from December’s Rule 5 draft on their roster, and each one looks like he belongs in the major leagues.

Christian Walker went 8-for-42 across his next 12 games, negating whatever nirvana the superstition may have spurred. He averaged at least a 96.5 exit velocity during eight of those 12 contests, continuing a confluence of poor luck and putrid results.