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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Randy Wolf allowed only three hits over seven innings Friday, helping Houston end a five-game losing streak with a 5-1 victory over Pittsburgh.
The Astros had their late-season bid for a playoff spot dramatically slowed when they had to take two days off because of Hurricane Ike. Friday's win was Houston's first since the storm hit the Gulf Coast.
Houston faced a five-game deficit in the wild card race going into the evening's action.
Wolf (11-12) surrendered one run and struck out seven. He left the game with a 2-1 lead, but that advantage was expanded when Houston scored three times in the eighth -- two of those runs coming on a double by Hunter Pence.
Pence also singled in Houston's first run in the fourth.
Ian Snell (6-12) was the hard-luck loser. He gave up just two runs, only one of which was earned, on three hits over six innings.
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DALLAS, Feb. 13 (UPI) --
Remaining members of the Mountain West Conference and Conference USA will merge to form a new superconference, college sports officials said Monday.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13 (UPI) --
Actor Matt Bomer, star of the U.S. television series "White Collar," confirmed during the weekend he is gay and has a longtime partner.
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PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 13 (UPI) --
A European space mission has seen previously undiscovered islands of star formation and mysterious microwave emissions in our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers say.
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