If there’s a word to describe what the 2023 season has been for the Astros, it should be inconsistence. On Sunday night, they failed to produce against the Rangers’ pitching and took the loss 9-1. Defensive miscues also played a part in the fall.
The game didn’t have its first runs until the final third of the game. Prior to that, it was a beautiful pitching duel between lefties Framber Valdez and Andrew Heaney.
Framber was on top of this game until the seventh inning and his curveball was rocking – he induced 11 swings with that pitch and eight of them were missed.