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Astros: Ryan Pressly and his slider have dominated batters

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Ryan Pressly gave up an earned run last night and that in itself is newsworthy to Houston Astros fans.

It doesn’t take a baseball savant to figure out Ryan Pressly is having a great season, whether the measuring stick is standard or advanced baseball statistics, your eyeballs or good old common sense.

The Houston Astros closer has converted 17 of his 18 save opportunities (94.4%), with the one failure coming after an opportunity to end the game was missed on a foul pop up against the San Diego Padres that Fernando Tatis, Jr.