This weekend will see the Astros and A’s meeting for just the second time this season as the two teams continue to trend in wildly different directions. While the Astros appear to be headed directly for playoff baseball, the A’s have pretty much already punched their tickets for the couch.
This turn of events must rankle the Oakland faithful to no end after watching their team come tantalizingly close to October several times over the past few years, only for ownership to tear it all down this past winter. Since then, things have gone pretty much how you would imagine, with Oakland’s record saying it all.