{"id":768865,"date":"2026-08-03T12:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/768865\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:27:14","slug":"astros-dominate-rangers-during-silver-boot-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/768865\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros Dominate Rangers During Silver Boot Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Astros delivered on a massive series against the Texas Rangers and finally brought their record above .500 since April. Additionally, after the sweep of their instate rivals in dominating fashion, Houston took over the lead in the AL West, hold the division tie-breaker and captured the Silver Boot Trophy. Yordan Alvarez continued the hunt for the Triple Crown and surge as an MVP candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros look to extend their league-leading six game win streak against fan favorite George Springer and the Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpress.com\/author\/jack-gorman\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Gorman__Jackson_Houston-scaled-120x120.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJackson is a freelance photographer and writer covering a variety of music and sporting events in the Houston area. He has contributed to the Houston Press since 2013.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpress.com\/author\/jack-gorman\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Jack Gorman\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Astros delivered on a massive series against the Texas Rangers and finally brought their record above .500&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,53234,139,54,3211,5828,4,94958,44493,69,2264],"class_list":["post-768865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-astros","tag-astros","tag-baseball","tag-homepage","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","tag-jeremy-pena","tag-mlb","tag-silver-boot-series","tag-slideshow-gallery","tag-texas-rangers","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117031577086593424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}