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HOUSTON -- Joe Musgrove bounced back after two horrible outings, and the Houston Astros offense did the rest Monday night.Jose Altuve homered, Musgrove and three relievers combined on a four-hitter and the Astros beat the Oakland Athletics 6-0.Musgrove (2-2) struck out seven, walked three and allowed three hits over 5 1/3 innings, and then Luke Gregerson, Pat Neshek and Brad Peacock closed things out.Musgrove had allowed 13 runs over his last two starts.I have to be the guy who goes as hard as he can as long as he can, Musgrove said. The last couple outings I found myself trying to pace myself trying to get to the seventh. I did a lot of work this week making mechanical adjustments and told myself to go out there and give it everything you have as long as you can and let the bullpen take over from there.Musgrove retired 11 of the first 13 batters before Khris Davis singled with two outs in the fourth for the first hit against him.I thought he did a good job especially the fifth, Houston manager A.J. Hinch said. He came out really aggressive which is an adjustment for him to match quantity of strikes with quality. He wasnt going to leave anything in the tank and he was going to go as hard as he could as long as he could.Houston closed within two games of the second AL wild card with the win and Baltimores loss.As starter Sean Manaea (5-9) left after 3 1/3 innings with a left rhomboid strain. Manaea fielded a comebacker from Yulieski Gurriel to start the fourth, then threw one pitch to Marwin Gonzalez before manager Bob Melvin and the trainer headed to the mound. The left-hander was replaced by Chris Smith.Manaea said he was uncertain if he would miss his next start. He is listed as day-to-day.Just frustrating from where Im at, Manaea said. Already been on the DL once and to me it just feels like Im letting everyone down. I hate being hurt and just getting taken out early, especially with a close game like that just bothered me. It is what it is, I just have to make sure going forward I get everything done and try not to have this problem again.Altuve hit his second homer in two games to lead off the sixth and extend Houstons lead to 3-0. Alex Bregman hit a two-run single and Carlos Correa had an RBI single as part of a three-run seventh.We got extra opportunities in the second, obviously got the two runs on a couple errors and a couple walks but Altuves homer obviously was a big tack-on run, Hinch said. The three-run inning where Bregman breaks it open is what good offenses do when you get the opportunity.Manaea allowed two unearned runs and one hit with four strikeouts.Marcus Semien had two of Oaklands hits.TRAINING ROOMAthletics: INF Billy Butler was reinstated from the seven-day concussion list. To make room on the roster, INF Arismendy Alcantara was optioned to Class A Stockton. ... LHP Sean Doolittle (left shoulder strain) will continue a rehab assignment Tuesday with Triple-A Nashville. ... RHP Henderson Alvarez (right shoulder surgery) is set to start a rehab assignment Tuesday in Stockton. ... RHP Jesse Hahn (right shoulder strain) will pitch Wednesday for Nashville.Astros: OF Colby Rasmus (cyst in right ear) was scheduled to work in the outfield, do some baserunning and also take batting practice, Hinch said, adding they will determine afterward whether to activate Rasmus on Tuesday or Wednesday or wait until the Texas series over the weekend. Weve toyed with the idea of whether he needs a rehab assignment, Hinch said. Hes one of our more veteran players, and maybe he will jump right back into competition. ... RHP Lance McCullers (mid right elbow strain) played catch.UP NEXTAthletics: RHP Kendall Graveman (10-8, 3.97) starts Tuesday in the second of the three-game series with the Astros. Graveman is 3-1 with a 1.88 ERA over his last four starts.Astros: RHP Collin McHugh (8-10, 5.01) will take the mound Tuesday, looking for his second straight win after snapping a four-game losing streak Wednesday in Pittsburgh. Hoby Brenner Jersey . Sulaiman, 44, was chosen unanimously Tuesday in a vote by the leadership, the World Boxing Council said. Sulaiman becomes the sixth president of the organization. Rickey Jackson Jersey . "We have always prided ourselves on the way we play defence. 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And West Indies have all these awesome bowlers: the elongated Joel Garner, the divine Michael Holding, the malicious Andy Roberts and the malevolent Colin Croft, who is possibly the most difficult of them all. The top order has crumbled, Greg Chappell makes a duck, the score is 8 for 3 when Graeme Wood departs and Kim Hughes comes to the wicket.He bats like a man possessed. The meanest bowling attack in the world on a deck bordering on the unplayable and he doesnt care. He cuts, he pulls, he slays demons. His father-in-law is dying, watching with a week to live. Hughes is aware of this. It is context. His innings continues for three sessions. Terry Alderman arrives and says he isnt staying out here long, but hangs in for the best part of an hour, and sees his Western Australia skipper bring up 100 before he has had enough. Ian Chappell said it was the bravest innings he ever saw.Dennis Lillee bowls Viv Richards, 1981 This is from the same Test but is a highlight that deserves its own stage. A pause for the innings break, before Dennis Lillee and Terry Alderman return the favour and tear through the top order. Faoud Bacchus is first to go, then Desmond Haynes. Colin Croft is sent in as nightwatchman but cant keep Lillee out and the visitors are 6 for 3. The noise is deafening but the best is yet to come.You have to remember West Indies are nearing invincibility. They have arrived unbeaten in 15 Tests (though with just four wins), and anyway here comes Viv. He swaggers to the crease and settles things down for a moment or two. Its going to be all right, man. Then Lillee comes in to bowl the last delivery of the day, the crowd urging him to the crease with the chant: Lillee! Lillee! Lillee!He pitches it full and outside off, and Richards aims a loose-limbed drive toward the covers but the ball swings late, catches the inside edge and cannons into the stumps. West Indies are 10 for 4. The team rushes for the dressing rooms but the ground has erupted like never before. Nobody wants to leave.Virus first day, 2003 Look, Ricky Pontings 257 in reply was something. But there was something else altogether about Virender Sehwags 195 on that first day. Sure it was a tame pitch and the Australian bowling wasnt that flash, but Sehwag was extraordinary.He redefined the way you went about it at the top of the order. Without him there is no David Warner. He only faced 233 balls, but what he did was simply scintillating. He was hit on the helmet twice and survived a run-out chance in the fifth over thanks to an Adam Gilchrist fumble.dddddddddddd After that he seemed to figure he had nothing to lose.In all, he hit 25 fours and five sixes and struck the ball so hard at times, you were sure it would come back to the bowler flattened by the power of his blade. He should have got the double but the Australians put every man on the boundary and Simon Katich had him caught there off a full toss.Hair calls Murali, 1995 A lowlight more than a highlight, it was one of the worst moments ever witnessed in a Test match and it came completely out of the blue. I was at my parents in the country for Christmas and watching the match on television, lying on the floor in front of the box.Muttiah Muralitharan was just 23 and bowling on the first day, Australia two wickets down when umpire Darrell Hair called no-ball. It wasnt a big deal at first, but then he called him again. And again. And again. Seven times in all, in three overs. Why? Hed been bowling earlier in the day. Listening back now you can hear the confusion from the commentators. Tony Greig cant understand whats going on; they can see his front foot is not over the line and his back foot is fine. Hes called him for chucking, I said to my father. Bill Lawry thought the same thing. I was horrified. Shocked. The hair on my arms stood up. This was just not on. Hair had humiliated Murali in front of the world. Some 55,000 people were watching live and there was this strange buzz coming from the ground. Im still sorry it happened.Shane Warnes hat-trick, 1994 Australia are in total command as the game limps into a fifth day. England, dejected, are 91 for 6 and on their way to a massive defeat and Shane Warne doesnt even have a wicket in the second innings.He rights that situation by trapping Phil DeFreitas in front with the fourth ball of his 13th over. DeFreitas has played back, been hurried a little by a ball that didnt really turn. No big deal in the scheme of things. Darren Gough comes out - hes always good for a few runs, but he nicks off the first ball. Its a good delivery, one that bounces and turns. A good catch by Ian Healy too and now theres a little bit of interest. Two wickets, two balls. He couldnt, could he?Of course he could, hes Shane Warne. Fielders encircle Devon Malcolm. Warne sucks in a few deep breaths and bowls a topspinner. It catches glove and squirts low and fast to short leg. Its wide of David Boon but somehow he dives to his right and pulls off a classic catch. ' ' '