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Astros Reach 60 Victories by Crushing the Blue Jays

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Carlos Correa homered twice and had a career-high five R.B.I. on Sunday as the Houston Astros rolled into the All-Star break by battering the Blue Jays in Toronto, 19-1.

Houston, the runaway leader in the American League West, became just the fifth team in the past 40 years to reach 60 wins before the All-Star Game, according to Elias Sports Bureau. It joined the 1998 Yankees, the 2001 Seattle Mariners, the 2003 Atlanta Braves and this season’s Los Angeles Dodgers, who reached that mark on Saturday.

At 60-29, Houston heads into the break with a huge lead in a division in which no other team has a record over .