As the calendar flips into September and the regular season for baseball enters the stretch run, the Astros seems well-positioned to once again make noise in October, much as they have done the past five years. At the time of this writing, the Astros hold an 11-game lead over the Seattle Mariners for the AL West division, sit 11 games clear of a threat to a playoff bye, and are five games up on the Yankees for home-field for the AL playoffs. They trail the Dodgers by 6.5 games for home-field overall, but given the last couple of World Series appearances, that may not be a bad thing.
Beware the East???
