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PITTSBURGH -- Pirates infielder David Freese got a two-year contract extension Monday, then made the final out on a baserunning blunder in a game hours later.Doug Fister pitched seven scoreless innings of three-hit ball, Teoscar Hernandez hit a two-run homer and the Houston Astros beat the Pirates 3-1 on Monday night.Ken Giles got his fourth save despite allowing Freeses RBI single in the ninth. Freese was thrown out at second base when he tried to advance on an overthrow.You cant be out there at second base, Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. Youre two runs down. That probably was some emotional baserunning. The only way it works is if youre safe.Houston won its fourth straight game and Pittsburgh lost its fourth in a row. Both teams are competing for wild-card spots.Freese signed a two-year, $11 million contract prior the game that takes him through the 2018 season. The 33-year-old infielder will make $6.25 million in 2017 and $4.25 million in 2018. Theres a $6 million club option for 2019 or a $500,000 buyout.Freese signed a one-year, $3-million contract as a free agent March 11 and is hitting .276 with 12 home runs and 50 RBI in 108 games. The eight-year veteran has made 59 starts at third base and 26 at first base.Its always good to be wanted and the Pirates made that clear when they offered the extension, Freese said.Hernandez connected off fellow rookie Jameson Taillon (3-3) in the fifth inning after A.J. Reeds leadoff walk. It was the third home run for Hernandez, who was called up from Triple-A Fresno on Aug. 12 to make his major league debut.Taillon made his seventh consecutive quality start since being activated from the disabled list July 19. He pitched eight innings, allowing two runs and four hits with a career-high eight strikeouts.Leadoff walk -- thats always bad, Taillon sad. I dont know what the statistics are, but it seems like they score a lot. I fell behind the next guy and he cranked a pitch out. Thats baseball. If you fall behind and make a mistake, they make you pay.Alex Bregman, another Astros rookie, hit his fourth homer in the ninth inning off Neftali Feliz.Gregory Polanco had a pair of doubles and scored Pittsburghs lone run.Fister struck out six, walked one and retired 11 of the first 12 batters. He had allowed nine runs and 11 hits over nine innings in his previous two starts.I was just kind of mixing things up, Fister said. (Catcher) Jason Castro had a good game plan and it came down to executing it.TRAINERS ROOMAstros: INF/OF Yulieksi Gurriel grounded out as a pinch-hitter in the eighth a day after leaving his major league debut with right hamstring tightness. Gurriel signed a $47.5 million, five-year contract in July after defecting from Cuba. He is expected to start Tuesday night.Pirates: RHP Tyler Glasnow (right shoulder soreness) pitched three scoreless innings and threw 57 pitches Monday night in his second rehab start with Double-A Altoona, allowing two hits while striking out six and walking three against Harrisburg in the Eastern League.BELL GETS OPPORTUNITYRookie 1B Josh Bell, who was recalled from Triple-A Indianapolis on Saturday, made his second straight start. Hurdle said the 24-year-old switch-hitter will see the majority of playing time in place of slumping 1B John Jaso.UP NEXTAstros: RHP Joe Musgrove (1-1, 4.18 ERA) will make his fourth career start Tuesday night since being called up Aug. 1 from Triple-A Fresno.Pirates: RHP Ivan Nova (9-6, 4.83) is 2-1 with a 4.41 ERA in three starts since being acquired Aug. 1 from the New York Yankees in a trade. Fake Bulls Jerseys . 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They are not top contenders but they were reasonable opponents for Miller at this stage of his career and he dusted all of them.Miller will take another decent step up in opposition when he faces experienced gatekeeper Fred Kassi in a 10-round fight on Friday (Showtime, 10 p.m. ET/PT) in the main event of a ShoBox: The New Generation quadrupleheader at Rhinos Stadium in Rochester, New York.The 6-foot-4 Miller, 28, of Brooklyn, New York, is in a hurry to get to the top but has the durable Kassi (18-5-1, 10 KOs), 36, of New Orleans, standing in his way.Supposedly Fred Kassi is the most durable guy I have fought in my whole entire boxing career, Miller said. This is what they are saying and I tip my hat off to the guy. He has been in some fights where I thought he won and he ended up on the wrong side of the decision. When he fought other fighters, he had three weeks training camp, two weeks notice. He had two months to get ready for this. Im not a last-minute opponent. Hes going to come in ready and Im not about to underestimate him.I predict a fifth- [or] sixth-round knockout. I feel once he sees my size and my pressure and the speed that I bring with my footwork, its going to be game over for him. I know for a fact Im going to knock out Fred Kassi. Thats what I do, I take your heart, I take your soul, I take your ribs.Miller has taken some heat for his conditioning but said, humorously, that he changed things up for this training camp.Ive made some changes: less cheeseburgers, Miller said, despite weighing in at a career-high 296? pounds. I cut down from three cheeseburgers to one cheeseburger a day. Same thing, in the gym every day, not doing anything different. My main thing is my strength and my speed and we are going to see, come [Friday].Miller is calling out everybody of note in the heavyweight division. Hell need a couple of solid wins against known opponents before he is likely to get the big fights he wants but he said he is putting the division on notice.They better get motivated now because Im coming. Im hungry and Im motivated, Miller said. Showtime is having me on the main event on national television. Im telling you Im coming, and Im coming to stay. They better get ready.Im different to all the heavyweights out there. Im not chasing a payday. Im chasing a legacy.dddddddddddd. Im trying to change the layout. Im trying to change the game. Im trying to change my future and make history at the same time.Miller also had much to say about three of the divisions top names, world champion Tyson Fury as well as titleholders Deontay Wilder and Anthony Joshua, all of whom he said he wants to fight as soon as possible.On Fury: I like Tyson Fury. I still want to break his fingers in half but he is good for the sport of boxing and I feel like me and him for a main event will sell any arena out. He talks a lot of smack and he does back it up, but he is still a jokester and I am real. I will smash him if he tries to step on me in the press conference. I will knock him out, same way I will for everyone else.A fight between us two will be like Comedy Central on steroids. It would be bananas. It would sell out kind of like a [Floyd] Mayweather-[Manny] Pacquiao [fight]. I feel like we can capture the heavyweight division and put it back on the map, just because of the way he talks.On Wilder: Wilder is a wild man when he gets in that ring, but at the same time if you watch how he performs, he performs at a mediocre level against mediocre fighters. If you stick him to a world professional athlete, like myself or top guys, youll see him bring even more. Not saying he hasnt been in the ring with A-plus fighters yet, but you can see all his loopholes in his fighting style. Its just a matter of time before he gets really exposed and I hope it is with me because I want that behind.I want to fight Wilder. If he sees my style, if he sees my footwork, hell realize Im no Artur Szpilka or Chris Arreola. And when I get in there, well, most of my fights end up in knockouts. Im 100 percent power. Once I touch them, they are getting hurt.On Joshua: Joshua is overrated, overhyped. I am going to break that jaw of his. Definitely one of the weakest of the heavyweight champs. It comes down to the basics. You have a lot of guys that have a lot of punching power and basic skills and thats not enough. Joshua is a basic heavyweight, a one-two fighter.Id fight Joshua when the timing is right. I personally dont want to go and fight Joshua just because Im his next. I think that when the time is right, itll be me and him at the MGM Grand on pay-per-view. One of those super sweepstakes fights.Also on the card: lightweight prospect Mason Menard (31-1, 23 KOs) will face Bahodir Mamadjonov (19-2, 11 KOs), welterweight puncher Bakhtiyar Eyubov (10-0, 10 KOs) will face Karim Mayfield (19-3-1, 11 KOs) and bantamweight Antonio Nieves (16-0-1, 8 KOs) will face Alejandro Santiago (11-2-1, 3 KOs). ' ' '