The Pecan Park Eagle

Most Hits by an Astro in a Single Season: Jose Altuve, 211 and counting with 11 games to play in 2014 on the morning of 9/17/2014.

Jose Altuve did it. He went 2 for 5 in the Tuesday night, 9/16/14 Astros loss to Cleveland to boost his MLB-leading batting average to .343 – and a clean .010 point lead over his nearest competitor, Victor Martinez of Detroit at .333, who also bagged another two hits last night. Along the way, those two hits by Altuve pushed his season hits total to 211 – one more than the old club record held by the great Crag Biggio since 1998. In a display of beautiful sportsmanship, Biggio was even on hand at Minute Maid Park in the company of Nolan Ryan for the Astros’ 4-2 fall to Cleveland to congratulate Altuve after he broke the record with his second hit of the evening, a single up the middle in the seventh. Great class, all the way around.

“JOSE, CAN YOU SEE?” Now, with eleven games left to play in 2o14, its just a matter of tacking on more hits to the new record – and to getting enough of them to win the American League and MLB both leagues batting championships. With all the Astros bias we can muster, we wish you complete success in all of these quests, Jose.

WOW! It also occurs to us too that the physical giant that is  J.J. Watt of the Houston Texans of the NFL and the almost Gaedelianly small Houston Astro, Jose Altuve of MLB, may someday soon share something else in common among local professional athletes. – I wonder what that may be? –  And let’s not always see the same hands.

The Eagle is flying on short time notice this morning, but we shall leave you tables of comparison between Craig Biggio’s complete record year of 1998 and Jose Altuve’s new record in progress during the 2014 season – with 11 games left to play.

Have a great hump day, everybody!

ALTUVE-BIGGIO: MOST SEASON HIT STATS – THROUGH 9/16/2014

WITH 11 GAMES LEFT IN 2014, SEASON, OTHER STAT COMPARISONS

FURTHER STAT COMPARISONS