{"id":448308,"date":"2026-09-26T08:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T08:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448308\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T08:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T08:46:09","slug":"houston-astros-playoff-scenarios-where-things-stand-with-2-games-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448308\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros playoff scenarios: Where things stand with 2 games left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Astros and Texas Rangers each lost on Friday so the AL West remains tied, although Houston owns the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<p>What can happen in final two games:<\/p>\n<p>Houston Astros: 79-81<br \/>Texas Rangers: 79-81<\/p>\n<p>Saturday: at Athletics<br \/>Sunday: at Athletics<\/p>\n<p>Saturday: at Minnesota<br \/>Sunday: at Minnesota<\/p>\n<p>If Astros go 2-0: Houston is AL West champion no matter what Rangers do.<br \/>If Astros go 1-1: Rangers must win two games to win West.<br \/>If Astros go 0-2: Rangers must win one game to win West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Astros and Texas Rangers each lost on Friday so the AL West remains tied, although Houston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-448308","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\/448308","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=448308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}