Last night, well before Pat Neshek had a chance to come in and break the Houston Astros winning streak by doing what he’s been doing all September. The broadcast on ROOT Sports flashed a graphic I found fascinating.
It essentially showed their record when the Astros hit at least one home run in a game, and looked something like this:
| HRs | Record |
| 1+ | 70-45 |
| 2+ | 54-11 |
| 3+ | 28-3 |
And while Bill Brown and Geoff Blum were oohing and aahing at their record when they hit at least two home runs, the pessimist in me (that’s what you’d call it, I’d call it pragmatism) was laughing about what the converse meant.