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HOUSTON -- Joe Musgrove bounced back after two horrible outings, and the Houston Astros offense did the rest Monday night.Jose Altuve homered, Musgrove and three relievers combined on a four-hitter and the Astros beat the Oakland Athletics 6-0.Musgrove (2-2) struck out seven, walked three and allowed three hits over 5 1/3 innings, and then Luke Gregerson, Pat Neshek and Brad Peacock closed things out.Musgrove had allowed 13 runs over his last two starts.I have to be the guy who goes as hard as he can as long as he can, Musgrove said. The last couple outings I found myself trying to pace myself trying to get to the seventh. I did a lot of work this week making mechanical adjustments and told myself to go out there and give it everything you have as long as you can and let the bullpen take over from there.Musgrove retired 11 of the first 13 batters before Khris Davis singled with two outs in the fourth for the first hit against him.I thought he did a good job especially the fifth, Houston manager A.J. Hinch said. He came out really aggressive which is an adjustment for him to match quantity of strikes with quality. He wasnt going to leave anything in the tank and he was going to go as hard as he could as long as he could.Houston closed within two games of the second AL wild card with the win and Baltimores loss.As starter Sean Manaea (5-9) left after 3 1/3 innings with a left rhomboid strain. Manaea fielded a comebacker from Yulieski Gurriel to start the fourth, then threw one pitch to Marwin Gonzalez before manager Bob Melvin and the trainer headed to the mound. The left-hander was replaced by Chris Smith.Manaea said he was uncertain if he would miss his next start. He is listed as day-to-day.Just frustrating from where Im at, Manaea said. Already been on the DL once and to me it just feels like Im letting everyone down. I hate being hurt and just getting taken out early, especially with a close game like that just bothered me. It is what it is, I just have to make sure going forward I get everything done and try not to have this problem again.Altuve hit his second homer in two games to lead off the sixth and extend Houstons lead to 3-0. Alex Bregman hit a two-run single and Carlos Correa had an RBI single as part of a three-run seventh.We got extra opportunities in the second, obviously got the two runs on a couple errors and a couple walks but Altuves homer obviously was a big tack-on run, Hinch said. The three-run inning where Bregman breaks it open is what good offenses do when you get the opportunity.Manaea allowed two unearned runs and one hit with four strikeouts.Marcus Semien had two of Oaklands hits.TRAINING ROOMAthletics: INF Billy Butler was reinstated from the seven-day concussion list. To make room on the roster, INF Arismendy Alcantara was optioned to Class A Stockton. ... LHP Sean Doolittle (left shoulder strain) will continue a rehab assignment Tuesday with Triple-A Nashville. ... RHP Henderson Alvarez (right shoulder surgery) is set to start a rehab assignment Tuesday in Stockton. ... RHP Jesse Hahn (right shoulder strain) will pitch Wednesday for Nashville.Astros: OF Colby Rasmus (cyst in right ear) was scheduled to work in the outfield, do some baserunning and also take batting practice, Hinch said, adding they will determine afterward whether to activate Rasmus on Tuesday or Wednesday or wait until the Texas series over the weekend. 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Watch highlights of day three Asked if he is clear who his three best spinners are, Bayliss told Sky Sports: No. Its a close one and it will probably get down to the opposition batters - who were playing against, the left and right combinations.Most of all it will be down to who Cooky feels comfortable with. Im, sure well sit down over the next few days and have a long chat about it.England opted to rest Stuart Broad for the Test in Dhaka, which Bangladesh won by 108 runs to level the series, despite the injury-enforced absence of senior bowler James Anderson, who continues to recover from a shoulder injury. Watch NOW TV Watch Sky Sports for just ￡6.99. No contract. Bayliss confirmed that Anderson will spend the next week undergoing further tests at Loughborough, after which a decision will be made on when the seamer will join the tour of India but added that at this stage he hasnt ruled out playing a more seam-based attack in the first Test at Rajkot on November 9.We could do - thats what England have done in the past and on the subcontinent thats worked, he said.But even from a seam point of view we need to bowl good line and length and in the way its the seam bowlers that are holding up one end and putting scoreboard pressure on.In this Test we were probably a little wayward as well and let the pressure off and let them get away. Alastair Cook has insisted he has faith in his spinners England had won all of their previous nine matches against Bangladesh but folded from 100-0 to 164 all out to lose in spectacular fashion.ddddddddddddBayliss said his sides frailty against spin was just one area his team needs to improve on.Its one thing to say we lost 10 wickets in that final session, but throughout the three days there were a number of areas that could have been better, he said.We missed a number of chances this morning and we gave too many free four-balls in our bowling in general; thats where the Bangladesh spinners especially were good - they bowled a good consistent line and length and made it difficult for our batters to get away.Weve got some young, inexperienced bowlers in the team and even Moeen is probably a batter who bowls a little bit and hes still learning the craft. Weve got some improvements to do and were not going to hide behind that. We hear from Alastair Cook, Mushfiqur Rahim and Mehedi Hasan The demands of playing seven Tests in eight weeks mean England currently have no scheduled warm-up matches before the opening skirmish with India and Bayliss said that situation is unlikely to change despite the early finish in Dhaka.Seven Test matches in eight weeks probably isnt a great programme but were looking forward to India; its obviously going to be a great challenge.We are going to have to dig deep - theres no two ways about it but weve seen these guys before. Weve lost Test matches against South Africa and Australia before and come back and won the next one so Ill look forward to an improved showing in the next Test.Watch England take on India in the first Test, live on Sky Sports 2 on Wednesday November 9.Also See:Bangladesh claim historic winScorecardCommentaryCricket videos ' ' '