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ARLINGTON -- Ryan Murray was working at a geothermal site in Milford, Utah, when his phone rang on Wednesday with the kind of news that any dad who served as his son’s baseball coach dreams of hearing.

On the other end of the line was one of his sons, Jayden, a pitcher with the Triple-A Sugar Land Space Cowboys.

“He said, ‘Dad, guess what? I just got it. I’m going up,’” Ryan said.

And with the news that Jayden Murray was headed to Houston to join the Astros for the series finale against the Yankees on Thursday night, the Murray family began scrambling to make arrangements to be there. Ryan flew out of St. George, Utah

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