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Astros Baseball Basics

Baseball Basics: The Facts

Impress even the most hardcore baseball fans with your knowledge of the game. Go ahead, see if you can stump them with these fun and interesting factoids.

  • The Astros are celebrating their 10th season at Minute Maid Park this season.
  • Since the ballpark opened in 2000, more than 25 million fans have entered the turnstiles of Minute Maid Park.
  • Since moving into Minute Maid Park, the Astros have won two (2) National League Wild Cards and have made three (3) National League Division Series appearances, two (2) National League Championship appearances and one (1) trip to the World Series.
  • Minute Maid Park played host to the first-ever World Series game played in the state of Texas.
  • Going into the 2009 season, the Astros have been over the .500 mark in seven (7) of the nine (9) seasons and own a .566 winning percentage (412-316) at Minute Maid Park.
  • The Astros all-time season attendance record was set in 2004 at 3,087,872.
  • The Astros all-time single-game attendance record at Minute Maid Park was set in 2009 at 43,827.
  • The total seating capacity at Minute Maid Park is 40,976.
  • It takes 12-20 minutes to close the retractable roof. The roof moves back and forth an estimated 160 times a year a distance of 14.6 miles.
  • The playing surface covers 2.5 acres and features Seashore Pas Palum grass.
  • Craig Biggio holds the record for the most seasons played in an Astros uniform at 20 years and finished his career with 3,060 hits making him one of only 27 MLB players to amass 3,000+ hits in their career.
  • Jeff Bagwell holds the club record for most career home runs at 449.
  • Lance Berkman has the highest career batting average for the Astros .302.
  • Roy Oswalt has the highest career winning percentage of any Astros pitcher at .668.