Seamen’s wild card hopes fade after Astros take series 2 games to 1.
WP: Nick Tropeano (1-0)
LP: Hisashi Iwakuma (14-7)
SV: Sipp (4)
contributed by Sphinx Drummond
The Astros took their fourth series in a row and third series of the month, they are currently 6-2 for September. It was a great night for the Astros. Jose Altuve became the second Astro to reach 200 hits in a season and Nick Tropeano worked five-plus innings for the win in his big league debut, yielding only 2 runs on 4 hits and 2 walks, while striking out 5.
When this team plays well, they aren’t bad. Pretty good actually.
With a .336 average, Altuve is looking to become the first Astros player to win a batting title. At 24 years old, he would join Joe Mauer (2006) and Alex Rodriguez (1996) as the only AL players 24 or younger to win a batting title in the past 20 years. Also, since the beginning of July, Chris Carter leads the Majors with 23 home runs.
Thursday is a travel day, the Astros head to SoCal to face the Angels in a three game series. The Angels look ready to win the division with a current 9 game lead over second place Oakland. C. J. Wilson will take the mound opposite Brett Olberholtzer for a 9:05 pm CST start.
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Wind: 4 mph, In from LF.
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