ROAD WARRIORS: The Astros set a franchise record for road wins this season with a 53-28 mark, which also tied the Indians for the best road record this season. Since 2000, the closest road performance by a pitching staff belongs to the '15 Indians (.644 OPS).None of this guarantees that the Astros will continue to dominate on the road and leave their performance at Minute Maid Park in the dust. It's also the lowest road OPS allowed by a team since that same '72 Orioles club limited opponents to a .607 mark. The scandal is that they cheated not that they stole signs.
Three games against the red-hot A's -- followed by three apiece at the Mariners and Angels -- will put that success to the test. Sign Stealing is not against the rules and the title demonstrates a bias in favor of the Astros. I'd love to know what special kind of person would come across a Wikipedia page, named "sign stealing scandal", with 127 footnotes, and think to themselves, "Well, at least it was completely legal because the article name didn't say it wasn't!") But perhaps fortunately for the defending, The Astros struggled on their most recent homestand, losing the first five games to the Mariners and Rockies before recovering to blow out Colorado, 12-1, in Wednesday's finale.That slide, coupled with Oakland's recent surge, sliced Houston's American League West lead down to two games. Friendlyediting (talk) 00:29, 25 February 2020 (UTC), Why is there going to be a scandal about something that is completely legal. ", "The Astros finished in first place in the American League (AL) West division for the 2017 season with a win–loss record of 101–61. Look at it a little deeper, however, and the Astros stand out even more for their dominance, which includes eight victories by eight runs or more -- five against postseason contenders.The 2018 Red Sox have a run differential of plus-99 on the road, which is great. With 22 road games remaining, it already ranks ninth going back to 1901, although the '39 Yankees (a mind-boggling plus-290) are uncatchable.Here are the best run differentials on the road in the Expansion Era (since 1961):1. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Houston is in a three-way tie for the best 40-game road start in modern MLB history (since 1900). Follow him on Twitter @AndrewSimonMLB. Meanwhile, this year's Red Sox are only three games behind the Astros' pace as they also try to chase down the '01 Mariners' record-tying mark of 116 total victories. The Astros struggled on their most recent homestand, losing the first five games to the Mariners and Rockies before recovering to blow out Colorado, 12-1, in Wednesday's finale.That slide, coupled with Oakland's recent surge, sliced Houston's American League West lead down to two games. The Astros' 31-9 start is tied for the best road record through 40 decisions in MLB history, according to Elias. "Completely" legal is the sort of exaggeration that one uses for things that are questionable to begin with. [13] They were 60–21 at home and 47–34 on the road. The title should be "Houston Astros 2017-2019 Cheating Scandal" or similar. Astros' road dominance puts them in rare air, 1998 Braves: +144 (423 scored, 279 allowed). ROAD WINning percentage MLB - 2017 Astros - All-Time T1. 2017: 53-28 (.654) T1. Because that report wasn't publicly reported, the Commissioner's Office buried the report. Yet many of the teams that have fared better did so in a much different environment, before the game was integrated and expanded, and the schedule was lengthened.Here, though, are the best road winning percentages since the Expansion Era began in 1961:1.
The Astros defeated the Boston Red Sox on the last day of the regular season, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, to finish the season with a record of 101-61. --Closeapple (talk) 06:53, 26 February 2020 (UTC), Semi-protected edit request on 16 February 2020, Previous report from Bob Melvin of Astros cheating, Semi-protected edit request on 19 February 2020, https://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/mlb/ex-blue-jays-reliever-sues-astros-1.5458728, Houston_Astros_sign_stealing_scandal#Lawsuits, https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2876040-athletics-filed-complaint-on-astros-cheating-to-mlb-before-mike-fiers-comments, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Kemp_(baseball), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Houston_Astros_sign_stealing_scandal&oldid=943137380, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 29 February 2020, at 02:16.
"The Astros finished in first place in the American League (AL) West division for the 2017 season with a win–loss record of 107–55. 2017 World Series - Houston Astros over Los Angeles Dodgers (4-3) series statistics and schedule. In fact, the Astros are the only team with a better combined road record than home record … For now, at least, the club is in rare territory.That .695 winning percentage currently ranks as the 10th-best road mark in a season since 1901. [13] They were 60–21 at home and 47–34 on the road." 2601:483:4F80:1790:9199:168E:9CA6:1437 (talk) 09:57, 16 February 2020 (UTC), The fact Bob Melvin, the manager of the Oakland A's, had previously reported the Astros to the MLB Commissioner's Office prior to Mike Fiers going public should be in this article. We don't change every sex scandal article to have the specific words "adultery scandal" or "fornication scandal" in the title just because some sex is legal; we don't need to do it with other scandals either.
(And feeling like you have to add years to an article title is another sign that maybe the article title isn't specific enough on its own.) 2001 Mariners: 59-22 (.728)2. 2017 World Series - Houston Astros over Los Angeles Dodgers (4-3) series statistics and schedule. to "The Astros finished in first place in the American League (AL) West division for the 2017 season with a win–loss record of 101–61. 2018 Astros: +155 (324 scored, 169 allowed) The Astros had a .593 winning percentage at home in 2017, and a .654 winning percentage on the road. The Astros have a run differential of plus-155, which is historic. The Houston Astros Home/Road Splits During the 2017 Postseason Are Laugh Out Loud Funny And You Need To Take Away Their Title. 2-T. 1998 Yankees: +151 (493 scored, 342 allowed) The 2017 Astros also performed better away (.654) than at home (.593), not to mention winning Game 7 of the World Series at Dodger Stadium. 2018 Astros: 41-18 (.695), Entering Friday, the Astros trail only the 2001 Mariners in the 58-season stretch since 1961.
See: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2876040-athletics-filed-complaint-on-astros-cheating-to-mlb-before-mike-fiers-comments — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.248.172.246 (talk) 22:45, 18 February 2020 (UTC), Change the Tony Kemp linked wiki (in the Astros reactions section) to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Kemp_(baseball) ScootsySr (talk) 20:28, 19 February 2020 (UTC), The title of this article is completely inappropriate. strikeouts (1593), which set a franchise record, besting the 2016 team (1396). Entering Friday, the Astros trail only the 2001 Mariners in the 58-season stretch since 1961. ", "The Astros finished in first place in the AL West again in 2018 with a 107–55 record (50–31 at home and 47–34 away) but lost the AL Championship Series to the Red Sox. Now with the Houston Astros having been accused of stealing signs during the 2017 season by former members of the organization, including pitcher Mike Fiers, the team’s home and road postseason batting splits in their run to a World Series victory are even more startling.. During the 2017 Major League Baseball postseason, the Astros played 18 games – 9 on the road and 9 at home in … The 2018 Astros have not been typical, however. (Also, even the sign stealing article says that sign stealing is only even tolerated in the most straightforward and simple situations. Someone who can edit the locked article please address this. But with the standings tightening and Oakland waiting, the defending champs will hope that their away game magic continues. The 2017 Astros boasted a 53-28 record in road games, which tied for first in the Majors. The latter made them just the seventh team since 1953 to go unbeaten on a voyage of at least 10 games.