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Both the Houston Astros and the Texas Rangers qualified for the postseason and finished the regular season 90–72, but the Astros won American League West for the third consecutive season, the sixth title in seven years, and a first-round bye as the second seed, all on the final day of the season by winning the head-to-head tiebreaker 9–4 [4] while the Rangers entered as the fifth seed wild ...
On September 30, the Astros clinched a playoff berth for the seventh consecutive year and the eighth time in nine seasons with a 1–0 shutout win against the Arizona Diamondbacks; they became the fourth team in MLB history to reach the postseason in seven consecutive seasons, a continuation of the most successful era in franchise history. [2]
This series is a continuation of the recent Astros–Yankees rivalry, as it marked the fourth time the two clubs have faced off in the playoffs and the third in the ALCS. The Astros previously defeated the Yankees in the 2015 Wild Card, the 2017 ALCS, and the 2019 ALCS. Houston won five of the seven games against New York during the regular ...
Houston scores five runs off Max Scherzer, wins at Globe Life Field again. Rangers lead best-of-seven ALCS, 2-1. ALCS Game 3: Score updates, video highlights of Houston Astros’ 8-5 win over ...
The Astros in total have completed 61 seasons in Major League Baseball, qualifying for the postseason sixteen times and reaching the World Series five times (2005, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2022) with two world championships (2017, 2022). The team was established as an expansion franchise in 1962, one of eight teams that was created in the decade.
— Houston Astros (@astros) November 6, 2022 For six straight seasons, the Astros have reached at least the ALCS, four times reaching the World Series. But since that 2017 victory, they had twice ...
The Astros blew a three-run lead, and Houston's pitching staff is still its biggest concern.
In 1982, the league held a 16-team tournament due to the players strike, which reduced the regular season to just 9 games. The playoffs expanded to 12 teams for the 1990 season, and again to 14 teams for the 2020 season, with an additional game added to this week in each year. Teams who later went on to win the Super Bowl that season are in bold.