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HOUSTON -- The Texas Rangers trade deadline-day moves bought them a victory Saturday night.Jonathan Lucroy hit two homers, Carlos Beltran had a tiebreaking single and three hits and the Rangers beat the Houston Astros 3-2.Lucroy, Beltran and reliever Jeremy Jeffress were acquired before the trade deadline by the Rangers, and Lucroy hit his first homer with Texas in a 5-3 win Thursday.Theyve shown up huge for us, all three of them, manager Jeff Banister said. Jeffress with the two innings hes thrown for us so far, Lucroy with what you see behind the plate, its All-Star caliber. Frontline caliber. And then at the plate the two home runs tonight, the home run the other night and just the quality of at-bats. And then a future Hall of Famer in my opinion in Beltran. Just as good a hitter as there is in the game.The Rangers improved to 10-2 against the Astros this season and pulled 6 1/2 games ahead of Houston in the AL West.Beltran singled to left off Chris Devenski (0-3) in the seventh to score Shin-Soo Choo and make it 2-1. Beltran left after the inning with a left quad contusion.Lucroy got his second home run in the eighth off Tony Sipp for his seventh career multihomer game and first this season.Playing meaningful games is always a lot of fun, Lucroy said. This is my third season Ive been that Ive actually played for a team thats really competing. Its really cool and its a lot of fun out there. Makes it easier to play, makes it easier to get us more excited. Just a whole different feeling.Keone Kela (2-1) pitched a perfect sixth inning for the win. Sam Dyson ran into trouble in the ninth, giving up an RBI single to Alex Bregman, but induced a game-ending groundout from Marwin Gonzalez to get his 24th save.Lucas Harrell gave up one run and walked five in 3 2/3 innings, matching his shortest outing of the season. The run came in the first inning when Preston Tucker walked with the bases loaded.Houston left seven runners on base through the first three innings against Harrell.Certainly on our end we had a chance in the first, Astros manager A.J. Hinch said. ... Chance in the second, chance in the third, chance in the fifth, chance in the ninth. Thats a lot of innings to come away with a couple one-run innings. Credit to their guys for walking the fine line, but certainly, we felt like we could have gotten more out of tonight.Jose Altuve was ejected in the seventh for arguing with plate umpire Alan Porter. This is the first time Altuve has been ejected in his career.Doug Fister gave up one run on nine hits, walked two and struck out two in six innings. Fister has allowed three runs or fewer in 18 of his 22 starts.Bregman got the first three-hit game of his career with two singles and a double and got his first RBI. Bregman is 5 for 43 since making his debut.1986 ASTROS HONOREDHouston commemorated the 30th anniversary of the 1986 NL West division champion team, including Nolan Ryan, Jose Cruz, Phil Garner and Alan Ashby. 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New York Jets Jerseys .com) - The Montreal Canadiens embark on their first road trip of the season as they head out west to battle the Calgary Flames on Wednesday night.The Vancouver Canucks are playing the second of a back-to-back but it might be the Colorado Avalanche that are at a disadvantage.The Canucks fell to the Stars, 2-1, in Dallas on Friday night and now face a Colorado team that is dealing with injuries. When the puck drops Saturday night the Avalanche will be without No. 1 goaltender Semyon Varlamov, who is out with an upper-body injury.Theyll also play their fifth straight game without captain Gabriel Landeskog because of a lower-body injury. Landeskog skated at practice Friday and was scheduled to be on the ice Saturday morning but has been ruled out.The silver lining is Landeskog is skating and Varlamovs injury doesnt appear too serious.(Varlamov) should be full practice by Sunday, coach Jared Bednar told HockeyBuzz.com.The other bright spot is Calvin Pickard will get the start. Pickard has played well in relief of Varlamov this season, including a shutout against the Minnesota Wild three weeks ago. He is 4-1 with a 2.07 goals-against average and beat Minnesota 3-2 in his last start a week ago.Pickard is excited to be playing Saturday because the game will be the second of the Hockey Night in Canada doubleheader.As Canadians we all grew up watching it, so its going to be fun, he told HockeyBuzz.com.The Avalanche (9-10) recalled goalie Spencer Martin from San Antonio of the AHL to serve as Pickards backup and reassigned forward A.J. Greer to the Rampage.Vancouver (8-11-2) is dealing with injuries of its own. Winger Sven Baertschi missed Fridays loss in Dallas because of a toe injury. HHe took a shot off his skate in the second period of Wednesdays win in Arizona and couldnt play against Dallas.dddddddddddd He had a goal and two assists Wednesday and his line combined for eight points.It is a little disappointing, linemate Alex Burrows told the Vancouver Sun of Baertschis injury, which is considered day-to-day. I saw him get off (the ice) and it was like, shoot, its too bad because I think we were just starting to peak and we had good things going. Hopefully, he will be fine. Its part of the NHL. Youre going to have guys who go out of the lineup. You just have to dig deeper and try to get some chemistry with someone else.Winger Jack Skille, who played for Colorado last year, returned to the lineup Friday after missing one game.The Canucks are finishing up a quick three-game road trip before returning home to play the Wild on Tuesday. Vancouver is 4-3-1 in the past seven games and Burrows line is starting to play well.Theyll have to deal with a confident Pickard, who supplanted Reto Berra as the backup with some fine play last year. He signed a two-year, $2 million contract in the offseason.It definitely gives you a sense of comfort, he told HockeyBuzz.com. But that being said, things change quickly. You have to always stay on your toes and be ready for when youre called upon. Every games an audition for everybody, so its another game for me tomorrow to prove that I belong in this league. ' ' '