The Houston Astros are on a downward spiral, and they can’t seem to find a way to stop the bleeding.
They suffered their sixth consecutive defeat on Monday, punctuating a four-game series against the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, Wash., with a 6-2 loss.
Injuries have greatly slowed down Houston, which started the season winning six of nine games, particularly the team’s pitching staff, but Carlos Correa would rather attribute the Astros’ struggles to their horrid play.
“I don’t want to attach our failures to the injuries. Our failures are because we’re playing s—-y baseball. We’re a good club playing bad baseball,” Correa said after the game, via Chandler Rome of MLB.com.
Over their last six outings, the Astros have hit just .240/.300/.340. Their pitching is a bigger issue, with 105 earned runs over the same stretch– the worst in the big leagues over the last seven days.
With Hunter Brown, Christian Javier and Tatsuya Imai all on the shelf due to injuries, the Astros will have to dig deep and find a way to get out of a rut, as they are currently last in the American League West standings with a 6-11 record.
They can start on Tuesday, when Houston begins a three-game series against the Colorado Rockies at Daikin Park in Houston, Texas.
