The defending World Series champs, whose entry into the postseason is, at worst, in doubt, meet the Kansas City Royals for the second weekend in a row.
The Houston Astros still held onto the AL West lead despite losing a heartbreaking game against the Baltimore Orioles in the ninth inning.It certainly shouldn't take a math major to tell the Astros that winning games more than losing them from here on out raises the likelihood that their World Series repeat bid lives on.
But losing 10 September games out of 18 so far has brought some uneasy times in Crush City, especially with two American League West rivals competing for the same division title that Houston has won in the last five full 162-game seasons. Entering Friday's start of Houston's final home series of the season, the Astros hold a half-game lead over the Seattle Mariners and the Texas Rangers for the AL West title and a likely bye into the Division Series.
What may haunt Houston, though, is that the 'Stros have one less game scheduled for the season than Seattle and Texas, who, with 10 games left for each club, provides this interesting twist - the M's and the Rangers face off with each other for seven of those contests. And for added measure, Houston travels to Seattle after its series with Kansas City for three relatively-late night games in the Pacific Northwest.
, when the 'Stros had a 99% chance of making the postseason and an 84% chance of clinching the AL West.But take this for what it's worth, Astros fans. If the postseason began Friday, Houston would play October baseball as the No. 2 seed in the AL side of the postseason.Saturday
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