The Pecan Park Eagle

12 Years Ago, the Astros Won Their 1st Pennant!
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Now It’s Time to Do It Again!

ASTRO*NOTES

Jose Altuve’s 3rd league batting championship in four years now hangs nicely around the .346 digits that support it. The guy who did is the walking, hustling, all-out running heartbeat of everything this Astros club has come to be. We just hope the league MVP voters see that fact as clearly as those of us who do who watch every Astros game we possibly can. There isn’t another like him – and we don’t think that even Aaron Judge and his 55 homers mean as much to the Yankees as Altuve does do both the Houston Astros and the game of baseball itself. Altuve is just the right size to stand tall as the role model for “you can be all you want to be” – regardless of size in baseball – if you’ve got the talent, the fire, the passion, and the discipline it takes to keep learning from your mistakes – and adjusting to the adjustments that your opponents make to you.

Yuli Gurriel is also a great candidate – even as a thirty-something guy – for Rookie of the Year. He fell a hit short of reaching the .300 mark, but, even at .299, his hitting credentials were pretty darn good. It seems like almost all of his 43 doubles, 1 triple, and 18 homers came at strategic times that tilted the game the Astros’ way. He also did a nice job of adapting to 1st place and was doing those one or two bounce swoop catches for the out play as well as many guys with many more years experience.

The nostalgic romance for daytime playoff baseball is a little damp here in Houston. News that the Boston@Houston Games 1 and 2 at MMP will start at 3 PM on Thursday and at 1 PM on Friday of this week is off-set by the fact that many working Houstonians will have to take off work early – or not work at all – to use the tickets they bought before the times were announced. Of course, the real reason this is happening is because the broadcasting network wants to save the evening times for the larger tv market clubs that also play on those same days.

Congratulations on a great regular season, Houston Astros! ~ Now let’s go do something that is entirely irregular to any season we’ve ever finished! ~ One Game at a Time, let’s not stop winning each series until the Houston Astros are the only team left standing as the winner of them all!

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HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE RACES NOW DECIDED

THRU GAMES PLAYED SUNDAY, 10/01/2017

 SEASON’S END (Reflecting All Ten Playoff Qualifier Team Season Records)

 W = WINNERS BY LEAGUE AND WORLD SERIES (WS) OVERALL.

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 HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE FOUR SERIOUS CONTENDER SCORES

THRU SETTLEMENT GAMES PLAYED SATURDAY, 9/30/2017

ASTROS 4 – RED SOX 3

INDIANS 3 – WHITE SOX 1

PIRATES 11 – NATIONALS 8

DODGERS 6 – ROCKIES 3

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2017 AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING AVERAGE LEADERS

THRU GAMES PLAYED TO REGULAR SEASON’S END:

SUNDAY, 10/01/2017

NR * LOST TIME ON THE DL HAS DEPRIVED CARLOS CORREA FROM AN OFFICIAL QUALIFYING PLACE IN THE RANKING OF TOP 40 HITTERS IN 2017.

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