Astros runs 2017 ALCS and 2019 WS.

Let's juxtapose two recent 7 game tournament series involving the Houston Astros, who had home field advantage in both: home in games 1,2,6,7. Both series have the ultimate extremes:
2017: home team wins all 7 games: Astros beat New York Yankees
2019: road team wins all 7 games: Washington Nationals beat Astros

The Astros are suspected of cheating in 2017, 2018, 2019. The alleged cheating supposedly occurred in Houston with the Astros illegally stealing the signs for pitches so that Astros hitters knew what pitch was coming. This would enable the Astros to score more runs but not impact the ability of the opposing team in scoring runs.

Below is a table with game by game scores. In the 2017 ALCS against the Yankees the scoring pattern suggests that the Yankees scored much better at home.  If anything, it would seem more likely that the Yankees were stealing the signs. The disparity in Yankee home/road scoring average is huge, 5.5 runs. The Astros averaged 2 more runs at home.

In the 2019 World Series the Astros averaged more than twice as many runs in Washington than in Houston.

	2017	2017		2019	2019
	ALCS	ALCS		WS	WS
G	Yankees	Astros		Nats	Astros
1	1	2	1	5	4
2	1	2	2	12	3
	Astros	Yankees		Astros	Nats
3	1	8	3	4	1
4	4	6	4	8	1
5	0	5	5	7	1
	Yankees	Astros		Nats	Astros
6	1	7	6	7	2
7	0	4	7	6	2
G	Yankees	Astros		Nats	Astros
1	1	2	1	5	4
2	1	2	2	12	3
3	8	1	3	1	4
4	6	4	4	1	8
5	5	0	5	1	7
6	1	7	6	7	2
7	0	4	7	6	2
tot	22	20	tot	33	30
	Yankees	Astros		Nats	Astros
home	6.33	3.75	home	1.00	2.75
road	.75	1.67	road	7.50	6.33
h-r	5.58	2.08		-6.50	-3.58

Astros 2017 ALCS v. Yankees:

Name	G	AB ▼	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	SB	CS	E	WPA	G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	SB	BA	OPS
Carlos Correa	7	27	4	9	3	0	1	3	1	5	.333	.357	.556	.913	0	0	0	0.25	109	422	82	133	24	84	2	.315	.941
George Springer	7	26	1	3	0	0	0	0	4	7	.115	.233	.115	.349	0	0	0	-0.29	140	548	112	155	34	85	5	.283	.889
Jose Altuve	7	25	5	8	0	0	2	4	4	5	.320	.414	.560	.974	1	0	1	0.37	153	590	112	204	24	81	32	.346	.957
Josh Reddick*	7	25	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	6	.040	.077	.040	.117	0	0	0	-0.45	134	477	77	150	13	82	7	.314	.847
Alex Bregman	7	24	2	4	1	0	0	3	3	3	.167	.259	.208	.468	0	0	1	-0.23	155	556	88	158	19	71	17	.284	.827
Yuli Gurriel	7	24	2	6	3	0	0	4	2	4	.250	.308	.375	.683	0	0	0	0.17	139	529	69	158	18	75	3	.299	.817
Marwin Gonzalez#	7	22	2	3	1	0	0	0	2	4	.136	.208	.182	.390	0	0	0	-0.27	134	455	67	138	23	90	8	.303	.907

Astros 2019 WS v. Nationals:

Name	G	AB ▼	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	SB	CS	E	WPA	G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	SB	BA	OPS
Jose Altuve	7	33	4	10	3	0	0	1	0	3	.303	.294	.394	.688	1	1	1	-0.47	124	500	89	149	31	74	6	.298	.903
Alex Bregman	7	29	3	6	0	0	3	8	2	5	.207	.258	.517	.775	0	0	1	-0.04	156	554	122	164	41	112	5	.296	1.015
Yuli Gurriel	7	29	3	9	2	0	1	5	2	5	.310	.355	.483	.838	0	0	0	0.07	144	564	85	168	31	104	5	.298	.884
Michael Brantley*	7	28	3	9	0	0	0	2	4	3	.321	.406	.321	.728	1	0	0	-0.15	148	575	88	179	22	90	3	.311	.875
Carlos Correa	7	27	3	6	2	0	1	3	3	9	.222	.300	.407	.707	0	0	0	-0.08	75	280	42	78	21	59	1	.279	.926
George Springer	7	27	6	8	4	0	2	4	7	5	.296	.441	.667	1.108	2	0	0	0.36	122	479	96	140	39	96	6	.292	.974
Robinson Chirinos	6	19	2	4	1	0	2	3	0	7	.211	.211	.579	.789	0	0	0	-0.15	114	366	57	87	17	58	1	.238	.790
Yordan Alvarez*	7	17	2	7	0	0	1	2	4	2	.412	.524	.588	1.112	0	0	0	0.08	87	313	58	98	27	78	0	.313	1.067
Josh Reddick*	5	14	0	3	0	0	0	1	1	2	.214	.267	.214	.481	0	0	0	-0.07	141	501	57	138	14	56	5	.275	.728

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