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MINNEAPOLIS -- Evan Gattis homered and had four RBI, Carlos Correa went deep for the third straight game and the Houston Astros beat the Minnesota Twins 10-2 Thursday night to sweep a doubleheader.Houston had 16 hits in the nightcap, three fewer than it had in a 15-7 win during the day.The doubleheader was necessitated by a rainout Wednesday, a game Minnesota led 5-0 in the third before storms arrived.Jose Altuve had four hits in the first game and was 1 for 4 in the nightcap. He leads the majors with a .365 batting average and has reached base in 41 straight road games.Chris Devenski (1-4), who had 21 straight relief appearances after making four early season starts, allowed two hits and struck out five during five strong innings for Houston. This was his first major league victory.Minnesotas Miguel Sano had two hits, including an RBI double.For the better part of two weeks, Houstons offense had been lacking. Before scoring seven runs in a win Tuesday, Houston scored 18 runs in its previous 10 games, winning just twice.Tommy Milone (3-4) breezed through the first inning before Gattis hit a three-run homer in the second and George Springer added an RBI single for a 4-0 lead. Springer had five hits in the two games, including a home run.Correa launched a 445-foot drive to the second deck in right-center to make it 5-0 in the third.Andrew Albers, called up to be the Twins 26th player, made his first appearance since May 1, 2015 with Toronto and pitched the final six innings. He gave up five runs, including two runs in each of his first two innings.Minnesota entered the day with an AL-worst 4.83 ERA and used four relievers in the first game before shortstop Eduardo Escobar got the final three outs.Thats because Jose Berrios (2-3) was ineffective for the third straight start, lasting just two innings and giving up six runs and eight hits. Since his Aug. 1 recall from Triple-A, he has allowed 12 earned runs in 13 innings.In seven starts this season, the righty has a 9.32 ERA over 28 innings, permitting 39 hits and 14 walks.Doug Fister (11-7) allowed eight hits and five earned runs in seven-plus innings to earn the Game 1 win.DOUBLING UPThis was Houstons 255th doubleheader, but first against an American League team. The Astros were in the National League from 1962-2012.LOTS OF ARMSEscobar and Albers became the 25th and 26th players to pitch for the Twins this season, a franchise record. The old record was 25 in 2012.TRAINERS ROOMAstros: Manager A.J. Hinch said RHP Luke Gregerson felt fine after an aggressive bullpen session Wednesday. Out with a strained left oblique muscle, Gregerson is eligible to come off the DL Friday.Twins: After allowing six runs in the first game, LHP Buddy Boshers was placed on the disabled list with left elbow inflammation. An MRI is planned for Friday.UP NEXTAstros: Joe Musgrove (0-0, 0.79) is scheduled to make his second career start Friday in the opener of a three-game series in Toronto against the Blue Jays Francisco Liriano (6-11, 5.34).Twins: Minnesota is scheduled to send Kyle Gibson (4-6, 4.86) to the hill Friday as it welcomes Kansas City for a three-game set. The Royals plan to counter with Yordano Ventura (7-9, 4.64). Köpa Nike Air Max Billigt . There are some early surprises in the race for the Hart Trophy, but two of the contenders are the leagues biggest stars over the past decade. There are many more players in contention for the awards than just the three that Ive named, and a good or bad week can easily alter the landscape, but through the first 20 or so games of the NHL season, this is how the awards races look to me. Air Max Billigt . Hamelin, who triumphed in the 500 on Saturday, edged out Victor An of Russia by 0.021 seconds to maintain his lead in the World Cup standings. Russias Vladimir Grigorev was third. In the relay, Canada took control six laps from the finish line to beat Russia and the Netherlands. http://www.airmaxsverige.com/ . Vokoun departed practice on Saturday morning after discovering swelling in his thigh. He was taken to a local hospital where the clot was revealed. The club announced the surgery following a 5-3 exhibition loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets. Air Max Skor Rea . DAmigo scored twice in regulation and added the shootout winner as the Toronto Marlies edged the San Antonio Rampage 5-4 in American Hockey League action. Air Max Sverige .ca looks back at the stories and moments that made the year memorable. Graham Arnold has revealed the inspiration that powered Sydney FC to their thumping A-League derby triumph, telling of an extraordinary message hed received the morning of the game.Young cancer sufferer Gabriel Cipriano, who last October sat with Arnold in the dugout to watch the Sky Blues 1-0 Sydney derby win, sent the coach his best wishes on Saturday morning.The coach said the little boys words galvanised his squad as they prepared to walk out in front of a record crowd of 61,800.I had a beautiful text this morning from a kid, Gabe, who sat next to me in the derby last year, whos got cancer, Arnold said after the 4-0 opening-round win over Western Sydney.He said hed be watching the game, and that this type of result with a Sky Blues win gives him reason to live.I read that to the boys before the game, and you could see the hunger straight away in the players faces, that they wanted to do it for that boy.Left-back Michael Zullo described it as an emotional moment for the whole group.It was a bit unexpected. Its probably the first time Ive had to deal with that, Zullo said.But it put everything into perspective.It brought us back to ground llevel and made us think about how lucky we are to be here.ddddddddddddNot just that, how much of a difference we can make to a fans day and their life by putting in a good performance.Sydney were superb all over the park against the Wanderers, who made their visitors work but could not convert chances and were let down in defence.Particularly impressive was the teams revived attack.Milos Ninkovic, Filip Holosko and David Carney were all in rich form around Brazilian striker Bobo.The fact that Bernie Ibini is still to come into the squad and bg-scoring captain Alex Brosque started on the bench only highlights Sydneys depth.It gives me good headaches ... just look at who we had on the bench, Arnold said.What I wanted in the off-season was to recruit two top players for every position, for them to push each other every day and work hard and fight for a position on the team.If they continue to play like that Ill keep getting more and more headaches.They just set their own standards, now theyve got to keep doing that. 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