The Crawfish Boxes

Thomas Shea-Imagn Images The Astros go on yet another playoff run It’s literally October baseball, the kind that matters most to those perennial contenders your Houston Astros. The ALWC roster is posted below. Yordan in. Chas in. Verlander out. The Astros draw a tough contender here in round one. If any team is designed for a three game series it’s the red-hot Tigers, … [Read more...] about Wild Card Series Game One Thread. October 1st, 2024, 1:32 CT. Tigers @ Astros

Unfortunately, Mr. Manfred could not erase this photo from the records. | Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images Baseball’s latest modifications to the playoffs...potentially. NEW YORK - It is the most exciting time of the year for baseball. Starting Tuesday, October 1st, the MLB playoffs commence, with 12 teams across both Leagues out to battle for the … [Read more...] about Totally Not Fake News: MLB’s playoff plans for the Houston Astros and others

Jake Meyers | Photo by Nick Cammett/Getty Images Welcome to the real baseball season. After 161 games of exhibitions, the baseball season is starting today. For some fanbases, just getting to the postseason is the benchmark of a good regular season. Forty percent of modern baseball teams reach the playoffs, but for Houston (and Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York) … [Read more...] about Astros Crawfish Boil: The Playoffs are Here

The Astros have had an unprecedented run of success in the postseason and are looking to do more damage this October. They didn’t take the easy route, but the Houston Astros are headed to the playoffs for the eighth-straight season. But this time, the road to the AL West title was difficult, even exasperating. The Astros began the season with a thud, going 0-4 in March and the … [Read more...] about MLB Playoffs: Dangerous Astros poised for another postseason run

Detroit Tigers | Photo by Nic Antaya/Getty Images The red-hot Detroit Tigers look to deny Houston a chance at an eighth-straight ALCS. The Houston Astros host the Detroit Tigers in a best-of-three game set to determine one of the ALDS series. Detroit and Houston met twice this season for three games each, with the Astros winning two of them both times to lead the … [Read more...] about Series Preview (53 of 52): Tigers Visit Houston