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The Astros' pitching staff combined for an MLB-best 2.51 ERA for the month of August, and their .185 batting average against (BAA) was the second-lowest for one month by any team in major league history. [103]
The Astros began play during the 1962 MLB season as an expansion team and were known as the Houston Colt .45s for their first three years of existence. They played in the National League prior to 2013. The team's list of records includes individual single-season records set by Astros players for both batting and pitching.
Josh Gibson has the highest career batting average in major league history with .372. In baseball, the batting average (BA) is defined by the number of hits divided by at bats. It is usually reported to three decimal places and pronounced as if it were multiplied by 1,000: a player with a batting average of .300 is "batting three-hundred."
On September 2, Díaz homered versus Luis Severino of the New York Yankees—his 20th to became the seventh Astros rookie to reach the milestone. [19] For the 2023 season, Díaz played in 104 games, batting .282 with 100 hits, 23 home runs, 60 RBI, and an .846 OPS. He played in 60 games as catcher, 38 as designated hitter, and 8 at first base.
With the win, the Dodgers broke a tie with the Cardinals (1926, 1942) to become the first franchise to clinch three World Series championships (1955, 1981, 2024) at one or the other Yankee Stadiums as the road team. In addition, they also joined the Houston Astros as teams to beat the Yankees in the postseason on four separate occasions. [97]
On August 16, 2024, Whitcomb was selected to the 40-man roster and promoted to the major leagues for the first time. [9] Making his major league debut on August 17, he started at third base in place of an injured Alex Bregman , and doubled in his first major league at bat versus Chris Flexen of the Chicago White Sox .
In baseball, batting average (BA) is determined by dividing a player's hits by their total at-bats. It is usually rounded to three decimal places and read without the decimal: A player with a batting average of .300 is "batting three hundred". If necessary to break ties, batting averages could be taken beyond the .001 measurement.
The following is a list of players, both past and current, who appeared at least in one game for the Houston Astros National League franchise (1965–2012) and current American League franchise (2013–present), also known previously as the Houston Colt .45's (1962–1964).