Note – I wrote most of this before Verlander’s recent loss – so it is not based on that outing. First, here is a statement of fact.

Pitching. Pitching. Pitching. The Astros went 18-10 in August. Despite playing three more games than in April, when they were 10-15, the Astros scored fewer runs in August (119 runs) than in April (121) in a month when they floundered. And this was due to a historically great month of pitching.

As our friends with Monty Python might say, now for something completely different.

As fans of any team (in this case, the Astros), we tend to follow specific patterns in our thinking and fall into poor habits as fans and human beings. This includes…

In many ways, if you consider a baseball season beginning the moment the previous season is in the books, it is a year-long series of options. Starting in the offseason, there are a plethora of options, though the budget often reduces the scope and size of those options. Who do you keep? Who do you…

Six weeks from yesterday is the last game of the season for the Astros. Six weeks can mean a lot of things in a baseball season.

As a friend of the blog, Daveb, pointed out recently, the Astros, since June 18,has turned a 10-game deficit to the Seattle Mariners into a 3-game lead. The Astros have been playing better in the last couple months, but they certainly have been helped by how poorly the M’s have been playing over that time.…