Once again the Astros played a game this week and, according to the Nielsen Company, nobody in Houston was watching on Comcast SportsNet Houston.

Nielsen’s Houston ratings report for Monday shows a 0.0 rating for households, adults 25-54 and men 25-54 for the afternoon Angels-Astros game at Minute Maid Park. The Angels won the game 9-1.

Monday’s game is the second time, according to Nielsen, that the Astros have played a game on CSN Houston that no one watched. The first came Sept. 22, 2013, when the Astros had a day game in Cleveland opposite a Texans away game in Baltimore that aired on KHOU (Channel 11). The Astros-Indians game came as the Astros were finishing a 15-game losing streak to end a 51-111 year, the worst in franchise history. The Astros went into Monday’s game against the Angels in the second week of the season with a 3-3 record.

The Nielsen report, of course, doesn’t mean that no one among the approximately 500,000 or so households in the Houston area with access to CSN Houston was watching the game.

Nielsen uses a limited number of TV set-top meters to measure viewing habits – 579 were use at some point during the day Monday, according to the report. None of them tuned in to the Angels-Astros game; thus, the 0.0 rating.

The pregame show, however, drew a 0.2 Nielsen rating, meaning that an average audience of about 4,600 viewers watched the show. None of those viewers with Nielsen boxes, however, stuck around to watch the proceedings.

It probably didn’t help that the Angels jumped off to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning and stretched the lead to 8-0 before the Astros scored in the bottom of the eighth.

Another factor may have been that KRIV (Channel 26) aired a NASCAR race from Fort Worth on Monday afternoon, which likely drew some sports fans away from baseball. That broadcast had a 1.7 Nielsen rating.

The Astros lost again Tuesday night, 5-2 to the Blue Jays, but at least people were watching. That game had a 0.5 rating, equal to about 11,500 households, on CSN Houston.

Astros fans without access to CSN Houston, which has been unable to reach carriage agreements with DirecTV, Dish Network, AT&T U-verse, Suddenlink and other carriers, have kindred spirits this year in Los Angeles. Time Warner Cable’s new Dodgers channel is available to only about 30 percent of the area’s 5.66 million TV households.

The Los Angeles Times says an average of 37,000 viewers watched the Dodgers on SportsNet LA during the season’s first weekend, down from about 300,000 from their first two games last year on Fox’s Prime Ticket network.

Last year’s 0.0 rating for the Astros occurred less than a week before CSN Houston, which is owned by the Astros, Rockets and Comcast, was plunged into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The bankruptcy case continues, with U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes attempting to mediate a solution in the matter.

The Astros say they are owed more than $27 million in unpaid rights fees by CSN Houston, and the Rockets are owed more than $36 million.