Houston’s offense on record-setting postseason pace

Let it never be forgotten that in order to beat the Red Sox in Game 4 of the American League Division Series presented by Doosan to advance to the AL Championship Series presented by Camping World, the Astros first had to beat the best pitchers the game has to offer: They had to tie the game off AL Cy Young Award candidate Chris Sale, who’d entered in relief, so they did. (After beating him in Game 1, too.) They then had to take the lead off of Craig Kimbrel — who was arguably the most dominant reliever in baseball this year — so they did that, too.