I know, it’s only four games, a small sample to gauge any long term trend. But going into a four-game series against the New York Yankees isn’t a very good time for your bats to go silent. The Astros scored just seven runs in the last four games and the team batting average over the past two weeks is .227, considerably less than the .265 they are batting for the year.
Conversely, the Yankees bats are trending in the opposite direction. Over that same two week period, they’re hitting .271 with a slugging percentage of .