Is it a home field hitting jinx? Or is it Newtonian physics? What goes up, must come down.
Well of course the Astros couldn’t win forever, not in the real world of action, reaction. Newtonian relativity stands unchallenged.
But what about that home hitting jinx. We noticed that problem early in the season and many of us assumed it was just a small sample size. But the weird home/ away splits for the Astros, violating all known laws of the baseball universe, persist as we approach the mid-way part of the season.
Even before tonight the Astros were first in MLB in OPS away at .