The Houston Astros are off to a horrible start, but historically speaking there is one team that has overcome that start and made the playoffs.
Houston lost 18 of their first 25 games. Even this early in the season, that can be hard to overcome. But, since 1900, one team has overcome that bad of a start and reached the playoffs.Back in 1914, little was expected of the Braves. They were coming off a 69-82 season and had not won or reached a World Series since their title in 1892 when they beat the Cleveland Spiders, 5-0-1.Boston got off to a bad start. After 25 games they were 6-19.
Right after that, they got red-hot, finishing 18-5 in July and was a game under .500 and nine games back. On Sept. 2, Boston took the NL lead for the first time and on Sept. 8 the Braves took it for good. By season’s end Boston was 94-59-5 and had a 10.5 game lead on the NL.
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