Charlie Pallilo

Houston

Journalist at SportsMap

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Articles

How Astros are getting vintage results in unexpected ways

1 week ago | houston.sportsmap.com | Charlie Pallilo

It’s been an excellent weeklong stretch of games for the Astros tempered by the news of yet another season-ending injury to a starting pitcher. To get the bad news out of the way, it comes as no surprise that Ronel Blanco needs Tommy John surgery and is done until at least the middle of next season. While Blanco had not been nearly as good through nine 2025 starts as he was last season, he was still taking his regular return and on average getting into the sixth inning.
Momentum starts at home and the Astros know it

2 weeks ago | houston.sportsmap.com | Charlie Pallilo

Two seasons ago the Astros were oddly feeble at home and warriors on the road. Now, this season is headed nowhere if they can't pick it up away from Daikin Park. In the first week of April, the Astros won their initial road series of the season. It will be June before they win another. Well, presumably June. Approaching seven weeks since they took a series at Minnesota, it's now seven consecutive road stops without a series victory.
How Houston Rockets hold the cards for a franchise-changing summer

4 weeks ago | houston.sportsmap.com | Charlie Pallilo

Should the Rockets be active on the trade market? Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images. It’s been a slog on the treadmill of mediocrity for the Astros thus far in 2025. Their 18-18 record heading into a weekend series at Daikin Park vs. the Reds is appropriate. Plenty of good teams will have similar stretches this season. The Astros have to prove that this year’s edition is a good team. Plenty of time for that remains. Reminder that the breakout 2017 Astros had a 74-game stretch over which they went 37-37.
How all signs point to Astros having another gear to hit

1 month ago | houston.sportsmap.com | Charlie Pallilo

Now’s the time for the Astros lineup to start hitting its stride. Composite Getty Image. The easiest way to win in the American League next to an opponent forfeiting the game is getting to play the Chicago White Sox. The Astros are in the “Windy City” this weekend for three games against the woebegone White Sox, most notably featuring Lance McCullers hoping to make some sweet mound music as he pitches in a game that counts for the first time since 2022.
Astros are turning the corner and it’s showing in the details

1 month ago | houston.sportsmap.com | Charlie Pallilo

We've been waiting for this! Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images. The NFL Draft, NBA playoffs, and NHL playoffs all dwarf baseball in the sports pecking order this week, but that doesn’t detract from the Astros playing their best stretch of baseball in the still young season. Following up taking two of three from the previously sizzling hot Padres by sweeping the Blue Jays three straight has the Astros’ record at a just fine 13-11 as they open a three-game weekend series in Kansas City.
Parsing panic from patience as the Houston Astros look to rebound

1 month ago | houston.sportsmap.com | Charlie Pallilo

The Astros' offense needs a reset. Photo by Logan Riely/Getty Images. Major League Baseball’s regular season is 162 games long. You can think of 18 games as the first inning of the season, 18 times nine equaling 162. While the Astros 8-10 record is not good, it’s far from disastrous. Think of it as them being behind 1-0 after the first inning. It is pretty remarkable that they have yet to win consecutive games.
If early noise means anything, here’s what the Astros should hear

1 month ago | houston.sportsmap.com | Charlie Pallilo

Can the Astros get the offense on track against the Angels? Composite Getty Image. What a wild four day pendulum swing of results for the Astros. The season is two weeks old and they may already have on the books what turn out to be their biggest comeback and biggest blown lead all season. Not one time all last season did the Astros win a game they trailed after eight innings. 0-56.
How mounting evidence suggests early Astros struggles are more slump than signal

2 months ago | houston.sportsmap.com | Charlie Pallilo

Christian Walker blasted his first homer of the season on Thursday. Composite Getty Image. The overreaction to the Astros’ miserable first week of offense was amusing. Yes they were pathetic, but the instant verdict from more than a few that it’s a horrific lineup, come on now! It’s definitely not a great lineup, and it pales in comparison to multiple others during the Astros’ run over the last eight years. That’s a long way from horrific. For six games, it was horrific.
The plays, the players, the magic of 25 years in the Astros' ballpark

2 months ago | houston.sportsmap.com | Charlie Pallilo

A new era begins. Composite image by Jack Brame. It’s go time! While the Astros are not the juggernaut they were over the more than half-decade stretch from 2017 through 2022 that yielded regular seasons with 101, 103, 106, and 107 wins, four American League pennants, and two World Series Champions, as the saying goes, they ain’t dead yet. There is no superpower in the American League West the Astros need to overcome.
How Houston Astros strategically pivot as outfield competition heats up

2 months ago | houston.sportsmap.com | Charlie Pallilo

What will the outfield look like on Opening Day? Composite Getty Image. Spring has officially sprung and the Astros are about to head home from spring training, meaning the regular season is almost here. Throw in the ongoing NCAA Tournament and late-March Houston weather, and this is one of the best times of the year.