{"id":448987,"date":"2026-09-27T03:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448987\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T03:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:08:11","slug":"houston-astros-what-they-need-to-make-playoffs-in-game-162","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448987\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros: What they need to make playoffs in Game 162"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif.\u00a0\u2014 This year\u2019s American League West will be decided on the season\u2019s final day.<\/p>\n<p>Texas\u2019 win, which concluded before the Astros began their game against the A\u2019s at Sutter Health Park, put the pressure on Houston to win Saturday night\u00a0\u2014 or risk entering Sunday\u2019s season finale outside of the AL playoff picture.<\/p>\n<p>An Astros loss Saturday night would send them into Sunday needing both a win and a Rangers loss to the Twins to claim the division.<\/p>\n<p>With a win Saturday night, the Astros could only miss the postseason if they lose Sunday and Texas wins. The Astros have yet to announce a starting pitcher for Sunday\u2019s regular-season finale.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, this year\u2019s AL West will produce MLB\u2019s first division champion with a non-winning record in a full-length season in the divisional era. That team will host an AL wild-card series starting Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the Astros or Rangers claim that distinction will come down to Game 162.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif.\u00a0\u2014 This year\u2019s American League West will be decided on the season\u2019s final day. Texas\u2019 win,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-448987","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\/448987","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=448987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}