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2005 – In their first game in our nation’s capitol, the Astros top the Washington Nationals, 3-2. The team is the former Montreal Expos, still under ownership of Major League Baseball. Roy Oswalt tosses eight innings of shutout ball and plates two runs. Mike Lamb homers. The Astros, at 49-46, have won 34 of their last 50 to climb back into the Wild Card race, four games back of Washington. 

ByTom

2005 – In their first game in our nation’s capitol, the Astros top the Washington Nationals, 3-2. The team is the former Montreal Expos, still under ownership of Major League Baseball. Roy Oswalt tosses eight innings of shutout ball and plates two runs. Mike Lamb homers. The Astros, at 49-46, have won 34 of their last 50 to climb back into the Wild Card race, four games back of Washington. 

Hideki Matsui plays in his 395th consecutive game to start his career, breaking Al Simmons’s 1926 American League record. The Japanese outfielder will also surpass Ernie Banks’ NL mark of 424 en route to establishing the new major league record of 518 consecutive contests.

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Hideki Matsui plays in his 395th consecutive game to start his career, breaking Al Simmons’s 1926 American League record. The Japanese outfielder will also surpass Ernie Banks’ NL mark of 424 en route to establishing the new major league record of 518 consecutive contests.