Astros Lead The 3 Way Qualification Race into the Final Three Games

Going into the final weekend of the baseball regular season, the Houston Astros have a one game lead over both the Minnesota Twins and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for the tenth and final spot in the upcoming baseball tournament. All the 10th spot contenders have three games remaining.

The Astros face the Arizona Diamondbacks on the road while the Angels are also on the road in Texas vs the Rangers. The Twins are at home vs the Royals.

Incredibly, or maybe not so incredibly, given his penchant for glaring factual errors, WFAN radio host Mike Francesa did not include the Twins among the hopefuls for the last playoff spot.

He said it was “between the Astros and Angels.” At least he did not say among.

There once was etiquette in giving scores with giving or saying the winning team first sacrosanct. For better or worse, usually worse, people have strong emotions involving who won.

That myopic sense of priorities is terribly unfortunate, but does not excuse saying the losing team first as Yankees’ radio analyst Suzyn Waldman did yesterday during a third or fourth inning scoreboard report during the Yankees playoff clinching win vs the Boston Red Sox.

She said the Reds collected their 12th straight loss. Done properly: The Cubs handed the Reds their 12th straight loss.