The Houston Astros are an American professional baseball team based in Houston, Texas. The franchise was granted an expansion franchise to the Major League in 1962, and began play in the 1962 season. The current name, reflecting Houston’s role as the host of the Johnson Space Center, was adopted three years later. In 2013, the Houston Astros moved to Minute Maid Park, where they play their home games in a domed stadium called the Minute Maid Stadium. The team won the 2017 World Series, their first championship, against the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
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The Houston Astros are an American professional baseball team based in Houston, Texas. The Astros were established as the Houston Colt. 45s and entered the National League as an expansion team in 1962 along with the New York Mets. The current name, reflecting Houston’s role as the host of the Johnson Space Center, was adopted three years later. They moved into the Astrodome, the first domed sports stadium and the so-called “Eighth Wonder of the World” The Astros played in the NL West division from 1969 to 1993, then the NL Central division from 1994 to 2012, before being moved to the AL West as part of a minor realignment in 2013. The team won the 2017 World Series, their first championship, against the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. In the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, the Astros once again qualified for the playoffs, making a surprisingly deep run for their fourth consecutive American League Championship Series appearance. However, despite becoming just the second team in the history of baseball to rebound from an 0–3 series deficit, they ultimately fell to the Tampa Bay Rays after seven tight games. On January 13, 2020, Astros manager A. J. Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow were suspended by MLB for one year after an investigation confirmed sign stealing by the Astros during their 2017 World series campaign; both men were fired by the team shortly thereafter. From 1962 through the end of the 2020 season,. the Astros all-time record is 4,630-4,697. From 1888 until 1961, Houston’s professional baseball club was the minor league Houston Buffaloes.
In 1962, Houston officials had been making efforts to attain a big league franchise for the city of Houston. Given MLB’s refusal to consider expansion, they announced the formation of a new league to compete with the established National and American Leagues. They called the new league the Continental League. The Houston Sports Association succeeded in purchasing the last minor league team in 1961. The franchise was granted an expansion franchise to the Major League in 1962, and began play in the 1962 season. In 2013, the Houston Astros moved to Minute Maid Park, where they play their home games in a domed stadium called the Minute Maid Stadium. They have won over 100 games in three straight seasons, and have made the playoffs for the first time in 1980. In 2015, the team won their first World Series title, beating the Boston Red Sox in a seven-game thriller in the final game of the ALCS. They were defeated by Boston the following year in the 2018 ALCS, but returned to the World Series in 2019, losing to the Washington Nationals in sevengames despite putting together a franchise-best regular season. On August 17, 1960, the National. League as a whole folded, to make matters worse, to an agreement with the HSA to sell the team to an worse-than-expected owner, Marty Marion Marion. The HSA succeeded in buying the Chicago Cubs in 1961, and succeeded in being the top farm team of the Chicago Chicago Cubs.
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