Due to life doing what life does best and getting in the way of baseball, I don’t have time for a proper preview this week. Cliffs notes version is that this is both a more and less critical series than Astros fans would have liked. Houston has been spinning its wheels ever since the Angels took the final game of the four game series in Anaheim last week, leaving the magic number lingering at a tantalizing two or three.
Now they’ll face the AL’s best record in the form of the Rays, who have already punched their ticket as the AL East’s October representative.