{"id":446008,"date":"2026-09-24T07:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T07:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446008\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T07:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T07:42:08","slug":"houston-astros-playoff-scenarios-where-things-stand-with-5-games-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446008\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros playoff scenarios: Where things stand with 5 games left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Astros, who hold the tiebreaker over the Rangers, move on to Sacramento for the final four games of the season against the A&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the race stands:<\/p>\n<p>Houston Astros: 78-80<br \/>Texas Rangers: 78-80<\/p>\n<p>Thursday: at Athletics<br \/>Friday: at Athletics<br \/>Saturday: at Athletics<br \/>Sunday: at Athletics<\/p>\n<p>Thursday: vs. New York Mets<br \/>Friday: at Minnesota<br \/>Saturday: at Minnesota<br \/>Sunday: at Minnesota<\/p>\n<p>If Astros go 4-0: Houston is AL West champion no matter what Rangers do.<br \/>If Astros go 3-1: Rangers must win four games.<br \/>If Astros go 2-2: Rangers must win three games.<br \/>If Astros go 1-3: Rangers must win two games.<br \/>If Astros go 0-4: Rangers must win once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Astros, who hold the tiebreaker over the Rangers, move on to Sacramento for the final four games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-446008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}