The Astros entered June with a chance to make up ground in the AL West and in the AL Wild Card race with 27 games against a soft schedule.
Houston would play 21 of its 27 games in June against teams with losing records. Having gotten Jeremy Pena and Jose Altuve back, and looking at a mid-June return of Hunter Brown and Yainer Diaz (both scheduled to debut today), the Astros were seemingly getting healthy at the right time.
However the pitching has once again faltered. Mike Burrows and Kai-Wei Teng
have both struggled through the month. Despite being given a 9 run lead before he threw his first pitch, Tatsuya Imai imploded in his last start and wasn’t able to complete the first inning.
The resulting starting pitching failures have left the Astros a meager 6-7 this month, as they continue to burn season clock mired in mediocrity instead of making a charge.
Do you believe the Astros still have a charge left in them, or is this finally the year the injuries are too much to overcome?
Will the Astros be buyers or sellers at the trade deadline?
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