Astros Complete Sweep at the Trop, Win Eighth in a Row

Jeremy PeñaThe Baseball Gods are nice, except when they’re not...

It’s a game of inches, and sometimes things don’t break your way, but sometimes they do.

The first inning didn’t provide much in the way of drama. Houston went down 1-2-3 in the top of the frame. In the bottom, Zach Dezenzo turned a Brandon Lowe groundout into a one-out baserunner when the ball evaded his glove for an error, but Lowe was erased a moment later when Ronel Blanco induced an easy 5-6-3 double play.

Neither team produced a baserunner after that until one out in the bottom of the third, when Taylor Walls touched Blanco for a single down the right line. The ball glanced off Dezenzo’s glove, and for a moment I thought…