1962 Houston Colt .45s season
| 1962 Houston Colt .45s | |
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| Record | 64–96 (.400) |
| League place | 8th |
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| Owner(s) | Craig F. Cullinan, Jr., Roy Hofheinz |
| General manager(s) | Paul Richards |
| Manager(s) | Harry Craft |
| Local television |
KTRK (Al Helfer, Gene Elston, Guy Savage) |
| Local radio |
KPRC (AM) (Al Helfer, Gene Elston, Loel Passe) |
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The 1962 Houston Colt .45s were an expansion team in American Major League Baseball's National League, and 1962 was the first season in franchise history. Harry Craft was Houston's first manager. The Colts finished eighth among the National League's ten teams with a record of 64–96, 36½ games behind the league champion San Francisco Giants.
The Colt .45s were one of two teams added to the National League before the 1962 season, the other being the New York Mets. This brought the number of teams in the NL to ten, matching the 1961 expansion of the American League.
The Colt .45s started their inaugural season on April 10, 1962, with an 11–2 win against the Chicago Cubs, highlighted by a three run home run in the bottom of the third inning by Román Mejías. The .45s would go on to sweep the Cubs in their first three-game series at Colt Stadium. The team finished April with a 7–8 record, 4 games in front of the expansion Mets and only 5 games behind the National League leading Pirates and Giants.
By June 2, with the second loss to the Pirates in Pittsburgh, the Colt .45s had fallen to 16 games behind eventual National League Champion Giants, a deficit that no pre-wild card team had recovered from to make the post season. And, with an August 21 loss at the hands of the Phillies, the Houston Colt .45s were mathematically eliminated from the postseason with a 37-game deficit to the Dodgers with 37 games left.
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