{"id":349998,"date":"2025-09-29T11:55:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/349998\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:55:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:55:34","slug":"houston-astros-end-decade-long-post-season-dynasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/349998\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros end decade long post-season dynasty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/houston-astros\/news\/houston-astros-end-decade-long-post-season-dynasty\/b995f1ead74ea850bc6cae71?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Houston Astros end decade long post-season dynasty;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Houston Astros end decade long post-season dynasty <\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>October baseball won\u2019t include the Houston Astros for the first time in a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Despite jumping out to a 2-0 lead against the Los Angeles Angels the Astros\u2019 postseason hopes ended abruptly. News from Cleveland confirmed their fate during the game, as wins by the Cleveland Guardians and Detroit Tigers mathematically eliminated Houston from playoff contention on the penultimate day of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>The elimination snaps the Astros\u2019 seven-year streak of postseason appearances. This run included two World Series championships (2017 and 2022), four American League pennants, and consistent dominance in the AL West.\u00a0Houston\u2019s struggles down the stretch proved costly. They failed to keep pace in the wild-card chase, leaving them on the outside looking in while Detroit and Cleveland clinched the final playoff spots.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Rangers have also been eliminated from postseason contention for 2025 and will not be part of the American League playoff field this year. Despite holding an 81-79 record as of Saturday, their playoff hopes officially ended before the regular season finale. The Cleveland Guardians, Detroit Tigers, Seattle Mariners, Toronto Blue Jays, New York Yankees, and Boston Red Sox have secured the AL playoff spots.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB News:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Astros end decade long post-season dynasty originally appeared on The Sporting News October baseball won\u2019t include the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[152,42,5,48,135,51,53,139,54,3211,56,4,62,9581,972,8545,65,69,70,50477],"class_list":{"0":"post-349998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-american-league","9":"tag-astros","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-boston-red-sox","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-cleveland-guardians","14":"tag-detroit-tigers","15":"tag-houston","16":"tag-houston-astros","17":"tag-houstonastros","18":"tag-los-angeles-angels","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-new-york-yankees","21":"tag-playoff-contention","22":"tag-postseason-appearances","23":"tag-postseason-contention","24":"tag-seattle-mariners","25":"tag-texas-rangers","26":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","27":"tag-world-series-championships"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115287460723030279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}