Astros Clobber Orioles 8-1

The Astros swept the recently first-place Baltimore Orioles team in convincing fashion, a team in its previous two games before this series scored 24 runs against their arch-rival the New York Yankees.

This series was a beatdown. The struggling Dynasty humbled the arrogant upstarts by a run differential of 39-13 in the three-game series. This was the Astros’ fifth straight win. It left the Stros only two games under .500 and six games behind the Seattle Mariners with slightly more than half the season remaining.

Is this the long-awaited turnaround for the Astros?

In today’s game, Jose Altuve made a statement early. He led off the Astros’ first inning with a first-pitch home run off Orioles…