As Cody Poage pointed out earlier today, any playoff series is a crapshoot. The small sample size guarantees strange outcomes almost every year. Just ask this year’s Dodgers or Braves.
Here are a few of the things to look for in the first two games of the ALCS against the New York Yankees, the fourth playoff matchup in the last eight years between these two teams. (The first three all won by the Astros)
- Jose Altuve, who finished the months of September and October hitting.355, with a 202 wRC+, and who struck out in only 12% of his plate appearances, was 0-16 in the ALDS with six strikeouts.