He is back on pace to finish above his lifetime .738 OPS. Hopefully he keeps it up and I lose my bet. Or, once they clinch, he can go 0-10 and I'll win the bet.
Loss column is equally as irrelevant when the teams one is comparing have played the same number of games.
I'd say they have a chance to break the team record for wins. 11 games left. 7 on road (good for us). 4 of those against MLB's worst team. Need 8 wins to get to 103. It's doable if they don't slack off. Regardless of what happens with the standings, I'd like to see them playing hard all the way through game 162, because I don't want them to lose the taste for blood by the time we hit the playoffs. For the record, the Astros right now have nearly the same run differential as the 1998 102-win team did for the season. In a related note, as I was perusing standings, I saw our expected win-loss record, and they have it at 102-49. The team is currently 95-56, and no team is underperforming their X-W/L more than the Astros. No team also has an X-W/L with over 100 wins either. Boston is significantly overperforming compared to theirs. Granted, X-W/L is just a mathematical construct (and MLB.com's seems to differ from the straight Pythagorean formula describe here), but I do think it syncs up with personal observation over the season that the Astros ought to have about 7-10 more wins than they have but for sad offense on great pitching nights.
Yea I figured they wouldn’t continue to score 6+ runs every game and that the skeleton rotation would come back to bite them eventually. I was amazed it took as long as it did. Talk about a hot streak on offense and some amazing work by the pitching staff in the face of all that adversity.
Saying "hallowed" was obviously tounge-in-cheek.... obvious unless one is being difficult. Instead of telling children to "get off your lawn", you should tell them to remove the stick from your hiney.