The Crawfish Boxes · May 14, 2022
Houston Astros History: A Random Plate Appearance
Through their first 61 seasons of existence to this point, the Houston Astros have played in a total of 9,656 regular season and postseason contests.
Rich with both good and bad moments, the Houston Astros have enjoyed 61 seasons of Major League Baseball. I thought it would be a fun thought exercise to do a series based on randomly generated plate appearances. I used random.org to generate a year from 1962 to 2022 (I landed on 1987), a game from one through 162 (98), and a plate appearance from one to 76 (six).
This particular combination of digits landed me on baseball-reference.com, a box score from July 26, 1987, and an inning called “first.”
The Game