Houston Astros Pull Off an Amazing 0.0 Nielsen Rating

No one—literally no one—watched Monday’s baseball game

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Houston, we have a problem.

According to Nielsen live-plus-same day data, the Astros’ Monday afternoon home game against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim scratched, delivering a 0.0 rating on Comcast SportsNet Houston. In other words, not a living soul watched the game.

(As my colleague Andrew McMains pointed out, the ’Stros pulled a Blutarsky.)

Actually, if we’re going to split hairs, the goose egg laid by baseball’s lousiest franchise went unnoticed in each of the 579 Houston-area homes in which Nielsen set-top meters are deployed.

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