The Pecan Park Eagle

The old scoreboards were great, and they went so well with the kind of current standings we used to get daily in our local papers.

Are you old enough to remember when daily newspapers like the Houston Post and Houston Chronicle helped turn up the heat on the pennant races by providing daily current standings and some kind of ongoing pictorial on the rest of the schedule for the Buffs, Colt .45s or Astros and their hottest competitors? ~ And they even did it in type that was large enough to read and tease the imagination about match-ups coming up down the wire. We can’t do it all the time for want of time and other obligations, but here’s a taste that should last us through the end of September – whenever any club with a hot streak and a winning hand has a chance to take it all.

These are the up-to-date standings through Friday morning, August 24, 2018 ~ followed by the remaining game schedules for the three division contenders in the AL West:

Today’s Standings, Friday, 8/24/18

Remaining ALW Contender Schedule

Let’s hope the Baltimore Orioles aren’t loose enough to try and make a whole forgettable season go away in one final home game series against our Houston Astros.

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Bill McCurdy

Principal Writer, Editor, Publisher

The Pecan Park Eagle

Tags: The Standings ~ And Down the Stretch They Come!

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