Last Night In Baseball: AL West Lead Change; Have The Twins Arrived?

There is always baseball happening — almost too much baseball for one person to follow themselves.

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We have a new leader in the American League West.

Defeating the Texas Rangers at home, 11-2, the Houston Astros (56-55) now have a half-game lead on their in-state rival for first place in the AL West. It marked Houston's ninth win in its last 10 games.

As for Friday night, the Astros' offense went to work in the bottom of the second inning and continued to pour it on. In said inning, left fielder LaMonte Wade Jr. doubled home a run, which designated hitter Yordan Álvarez later followed with a two-run single. Shortstop Jeremy Peña singled home a run in the fourth, with third baseman Isaac Paredes and first baseman Christian Walker hitting back-to-back solo home runs to open the fifth.

Texas put two runs on the board in the top of the sixth, but Houston put the game out of reach with a four-run seventh inning, with catcher Yainer Diaz — who had a game-high four hits — hitting a solo homer, Peña smacking a two-run double and Paredes adding an RBI single. An eighth-inning RBI single from Lucas Spence got Houston to 11 runs. The Astros got 5 ⅔ innings from Hunter Brown, who gave up just two runs.

The Miami Marlins won six in a row, then lost 12 in a row and are now back on track after playing the National League East?

Following the prolonged losing streak, the Marlins have won four of their last five games, highlighted by a sweep of the Philadelphia Phillies and, most recently, a Friday night road win over the New York Mets.

Miami scored the bulk of its Friday night runs