Amazing the difference a year can make, especially in sports, isn’t it? With a 4-1 victory over the Orioles in Baltimore, the Houston Astros reached thirty wins for the 2015 season. They remain the best team in the American League, only trailing the MLB-best St Louis Cardinals by a single game in the loss column. The 30-17 record that the Astros are the proud owners of is a marked improvement on the 17-30 record the team had forty-seven games into the 2014 season.
The occasion of the seventeenth victory in 2014 was a 5-2 win over the Angels in Anaheim with Dallas Keuchel picking up his fifth win for a 5-1 record as a starting pitcher.