Inside the High-Stakes Showdown: What to Watch When Astros Face Rangers Tonight

The Astros are not the Astros that are locks for the playoffs. They are playing good enough baseball at the moment. They’ve kind of retooled and tinkered with their roster just enough over the past few years that they still have good players, but the roster doesn’t have the staples that it had over the past few years which put them not only in playoff contention, but as World Series hopefuls. This season has been fairly average as they are figuring things out. The Astros enter tonight’s game with a 22-20 record and a 7-11 road record. They do have a guy who has put together a great season to this point throwing for them tonight, Hunter Brown. Brown is 6-1 with a 1.48 ERA, and a 0.90 WHIP. Outstanding numbers for Brown, but I think we need to see this last significantly longer if we want to trust it. He’s made eight starts this season and only one was not a quality start – in that game he went 5.2 innings and allowed just two hits and no runs. He hasn’t allowed a run in half of his starts. The bad news for him is that historically, the Rangers have hit him well, getting a hit once in every three at-bats. Today will be a good test to see if he has turned a new leaf. 

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