Tag: stretch-run
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Astros 2025: The Lost Weekend
For fans of Houston sports teams, this was a Debbie downer of a weekend. The Texans fell to 0-3 and look a lot more like the 4-12 teams of the past than the division winner of the last two seasons.
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Astros’ 2025: Now what?
The Astros did what they threatened to do many times this season. After taking the AL West Division lead on June 3, they finally handed it back 90 games later on September 14. Just 10 games ago they had a four-game lead, but their 4-6 stumble in that stretch combined with a 9-1 charge by…
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Astros’ 2025: Hope springs eternal
Dan P, your fandom schizophrenic, has decided today that there is still hope for the Astros. Don’t listen to that evil Dan P that wrote the last post. Hope came in the form of minor league call-up lefthanded OF Zach Cole, who earned an MLB look based on a decent season in AA (.263 BA/…
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September 9, 2025: The Astros’ tipping point?
This is a tough post to write. The Astros have been a remarkable team to follow since that first out of nowhere playoff appearance in 2015. They have been so consistent with this playoff run from 2017 to 2024 and that ALCS and beyond string between 2017 and 2023. Seven ALCS appearances, four World Series…
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Astros’ 2025: Defining clutch
The Astros rough spell lately with hitting with runners in scoring position (RISP) and scoring period has brought almost universal agreement among the fans that this team is just not clutch. When anything is almost universally agreed upon with the “eye” test, it begs the question for this writer. Do the stats back up that…
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ChipalattAwards for August
After a slightly below average July, the Astros continued their swoon finishing August 13-15. Their team numbers for the month…
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Analyzing the Astros’ weekend
A baseball season is such a marathon, any particular three-game series is like a half mile out of that 26 mile death march. Not insignificant, but not necessarily that impactful. But looking at it another way, when the Astros wake up on Monday morning, they could be anywhere from five games ahead in the AL…
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Astros’ 2025: September Song
In some ways, this post may seem a bit pointless. As always, past performance is not a predictor of future gains, your mileage may vary, don’t count your chickens before they are hatched and any other hackneyed adage you want to apply.
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