Any Houston Astros fan with a pulse is well aware of how brutal the team's free fall has been over the last month. It was already bad enough that Houston's play during the second-half made the AL West race interesting again, but now there's basically no shot that the Astros can overtake Seattle. Houston is now playing for their playoff lives on the outside looking in at the moment. Complicating matters is that the simple fact that the team simply cannot stay healthy.
On top of the news that Yordan Alvarez is out for the foreseeable future with an ankle injury, the Astros have also had to deal with Jeremy Peña being out for the last couple of games.