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Baseball writer Zachary Levine offers up the key themes to watch for during the 2012 season.

Since we have four games to catch up on I'm going to highlight the best pitching performance and best hitting performances from each game.

One night after Oklahoma City hammered Reno pitchers for 16 runs and 22 hits, Bauer holds the RedHawks to one run during Triple-A debut.

VS. NEW ORLEANS ZEPHYRS Thursday at 11:05 a.m. Friday at 6:05 p.m. Saturday at 6:05 p.m. Sunday at 1:05 p.m. A Parent club: Miami Marlins PCL titles: 1998, 2001 Notable alumni: Sandy Alomar Jr., Lance Berkman, Jesus Feliciano To know: Were the Denver Bears from 1955 to 1984 and the Denver Zephyrs until 1992 Manager: Greg Norton For the record: The ... (more)

The 2012 Houston Astros are doing much better than expected thus far, and there are a few reasonable goals that the club can reach by the end of the season at this pace.

If the Houston Astros need a pitcher, they have a heck of a prospect in Oklahoma City .

Baseball writer Zachary Levine offers up the key themes to watch for during the 2012 season.

Just wanted to note that Aneury, not Fernando Suckage Abad, got sent down to make room for the returning Rhiner Cruz, who, by the way, wasn't all that sharp at AAA rehabbing from an ankle sprain - they had better not be bringing him back too early because that is how shoulder/elbow/back injuries happen, when guys adjust their motion slightly to ... (more)

Cody Clark hits a two-out, three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to give defending PCL champs a 10-9 victory.

It's hard not to get excited about the Houston Astros right now . Sure the team has a losing record and they're five games out of first place, but the team has won three straight and six of their last 10 games.

With all the talk surrounding Chris Johnson 's lack of power and inability to draw walks for the Astros this season I figured that it was a good time to check in on Brett Wallace who was competing with Johnson for the job this spring.

We're a month into the season, so I thought I'd start some discussion about which players have been the most pleasant surprises and which players have been the biggest disappointments.

Let's talk some Astros as we savor that thing that happened last night... 1) Chris Johnson smackdown - Chris Johnson now has less home runs than Matt Downs .

Overall there wasn't a whole lot of positives to pull from yesterday's games as all three teams that played lost.

Houston's top affiliate rolls into Albuquerque for a four-game series starting Monday at 6:35 p.m., still smarting after losing three of four to the Isotopes from April 21-24. The RedHawks lead the American South Division by 1.5 games over New Orleans and by three games over Albuquerque.