RED SOX FANS: “WE GOTTA FIND A WAY TO BLAME THE 2014 SEASON ON SOME GUY LIKE HARRY FRAZEE OR BUCKY ‘F-N’ DENT!”
ASTROS TIE RED SOX WITH 2 GAMES TO GO!
Harry Frazee: The Red Sox owner who sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees.
The Houston Astros pulled back into a tie with the Boston Red Sox in their “Reversal of Fortunes” battle for the better record in 2014 by downing the New York Mets, 3-1, as the BoSox were getting nipped by their old “Evil Empire” enemies, the New York Yankees, by 3-2. Apparently the Red Sox became so enraptured by their own separation anxieties from all the Fenway Farewells to a retiring arch-foe from New York named Derek Jeter, that they failed to keep their minds as a team upon winning. – One could make the argument that Boston’s inability to focus and follow through on winning Friday night was not unusual for the Sox in 2014 – and that their 90th club loss on the year had little to do with their heartache over the thought of Derek Jeter retiring.
With two games to go, the Houston Astros still have a good chance of finishing 2014 as the first 111-loss team of the previous season to come back and finish the following year with a better record than the club that won the World Series that also recent time.
As we keep asking of you – stay tuned! – We’re almost there. – This weekend settles this little baseball match question and others.
| REVERSE FORTUNES |
GAMES LEFT |
WON | LOST | PCT. | GAMES BEHIND | ||||
| BOSTON RED SOX | 2 |
70 | 90 | .438 | – | ||||
| HOUSTON ASTROS | 2 |
70 | 90 | .438 | – |
SCORES OF GAMES PLAYED FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014:
NEW YORK (AL) 3 – BOSTON 2.
HOUSTON 3 – NEW YORK (NL) 1.
SCHEDULE OF GAME FOR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2014:
NEW YORK (AL) @ BOSTON
HOUSTON @ NEW YORK (NL)
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THE PECAN PARK EAGLE DAILY MLB 2014 BATTING CROWN EYE:
| CONTENDERS | TEAM | THRU GAME DATE | GAMES LEFT | AT BATS | 2014 HITS | CURRENT BATTING AVERAGE | ||||||
| ALTUVE | ASTROS | 9/26 | 2 | 652 | 223 | .342 | ||||||
| MARTINEZ | TIGERS | 9/26 | 2 | 556 | 187 | .336 |
NOTES, 9/27 AM: Saturday morning. – “…and down the stretch they come!”
As both Jose Altuve and Victor Martinez spent Friday night games on “1 for 4” results against the Twins and Mets, they each dropped a batting average point, but maintained their .006 point differential in the Astro leader’s favor. Jose Altuve’s .342 to Victor Martinez’s .336 now looms slightly larger with only two games left to play for both contenders. If they again play “match ’em” statistical games today against their same foes, it’s probably as close to being over as things can be without the final nail that strikes at the end of Sunday’s Game 162. – Get your binoculars on the track as they rumble toward the finish line.
The Eagle Eye on Jose Altuve’s pursuit of the 2014 American League and MLB batting average championships will continue daily through the balance of the season. For now, it’s a two-man race between Altuve and Victor Martinez of the Detroit Tigers. Should that change, so will our reporting format. – Bill McCurdy
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ASTROS WIN UNOFFICIAL 2014 SECOND SILVER BOOT TROPHY!
On the heels of a 3-1 Houston win in Flushing over the Mets, a later concluding 6-2 home loss by the Rangers to Oakland served only as decorative testimony to the fact that the Astros have now clinched a better overall record for the season than is now possible for Texas with two games remaining. The Pecan Park Eagle, hereby, awards the Unofficial 2014 Second Silver Boot Trophy to the Houston Astros for getting the job done. With two games remaining for each club to play against the Mets and Athletics, the Astros now hold an insurmountable four-game lead over the Rangers.
This is all there is to the Silver Boot No. 2 Award, but we guess in this instance that it is the thought that counts.
Congratulations, Astros!
Here’s how things look now that this hardly noticed race has been decided:
| SILVER BOOT II | WON | LOST | PCT. | GB | GL | |||||
| HOUSTON | 70 | 90 | .438 | ~ | 2 | |||||
| X-TEXAS | 66 | 94 | .413 | 4 | 2 |
X = Texas is now eliminated on 9/26/14 in the competition between the two Texas teams for best overall season record in 2014. There will be no further reports in these columns that hardly mattered in the first place.
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The Pecan Park Eagle 
September 27, 2014 at 4:14 pm |
As the season nears its conclusion, I feel compelled to congratulate the Pittsburgh Pirates for their second consecutive playoff appearance on the heels of 20 consecutive losing seasons as well as the Kansas City Royals for breaking their 29-year playoff drought. I’d love to see both of these teams win their divisions this weekend. Let’s also hope that the Astros don’t experience as long an absence from the playoffs as these two franchises did; considering that Houston is a much bigger market than either of those cities – which means more money for the owner – the ‘Stros should be back sooner rather than later.
September 27, 2014 at 4:34 pm |
Yes. Let’s hope.