There should now be three things expected to survive in a potential nuclear apocalypse: cockroaches, Twinkies, and the Houston Astros The New York Yankees no longer lead the American League East. The Toronto Blue Jays and Tampa Bay Rays (perhaps the AL's best threat) are more unproven upstarts than reliable challengers.

The Astros sweep the Dodgers in Los Angeles, the Pirates turn good history into bad, the Guardians blew it in the ninth and more from the weekend's MLB action.

Christian Walker, Yainer Diaz and Jose Altuve each homered, Ryan Gusto threw six strong innings, and the Houston Astros beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 on Sunday to complete their first three-game sweep at Dodger Stadium since May 9-11,