The Astros And Rangers Just Played The Game Of The Year!!!
HOLY SHIT! Where do I begin?! The postseason is back on! It is SO back on! For so much of this game, it felt like it would be another notch on the finely on the legendary career of Justin Verlander. He was rolling through 5 inning, allowing only one solo homer in the process. He got into some trouble in the 6th, and Adolis Garcia made him pay.
There can't be many things in sports that make you feel as cool as hitting a home run, but nuking a tank in a high-leverage situation in October has to make you feel like a damn rockstar. This mammoth three-run shot will go down as the greatest moment so far in the very short history of Globe Life Field. The fans let him know.
"Cool" is one of those words that is hard to define, but you know what it is when you see it. This shit was cool as it gets. Adolis Garcia is already one of the most electric players in baseball. Outside of the fact that the dude looks like he could play free safety for the Dallas Cowboys, he just knows how to wreck baseballs, and this was the defining moment of his career. This led to a lot more juicy drama. Garcia was hit with a 99 MPH fastball on the first pitch he saw in his next at-bat. Yeah, this wasn’t an accident.
I’d usually call this a lame move by Bryan Abreu (and it was), but no one was warned before the HBP. Abreu was thrown out of the game, and Dusty Baker was FURIOUS and refused to leave the dugout until well after he was tossed!
Garcia was also tossed from the game for getting in Martin Maldonado’s face. For Abreu, this is the risk you run when you plunk guys, but man, what an awesome moment. This was originally going to be where I thought this blog would end. But then the Astros did Astros things, and Jose Altvue did Jose Altuve things! The Astros got two runners on in the 9th, setting the stage for the future Hall of Famers heroics!
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HOLY ASS FUCK! What a goddamn ballgame! It's as if the baseball gods were holding in a shit ton of greatness and released it all over our faces in this game. Ryan Pressly got into trouble but shut it down in the 9th! Game Six back in Houston is going to be fun!