The most difficult discussion to have about the Astros right now regards what they should do. The easy answer is win, and win the division, which they lead by just 1½ games now over the Rangers. But they’re not the lone darlings of the American League West anymore.
A more elaborate answer allows for the possibility the Astros are coming back to earth at the precisely wrong time in the season, that the baseball world is correcting itself somehow with the ascension of the Rangers, who are a markedly different second-half team.
However this shakes out, what they definitively should do is play cleanly in the final three weeks.