Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. And it seems like the Astros have been exceedingly lucky during this string of 11 wins in 12 games.
After wasting yet another superb starting pitching performance by new-Astro Yusei Kikuchi by committing four costly errors, and even getting called out at the plate in a crucial situation for calling timeout too often, it seemed the Astros were determined to lose this game one way or another.
But they did battle back repeatedly despite themselves, and in the bottom of the ninth, score tied, after Yordan Alvarez had just struck out on three pitches, Yainer Diaz took Kenley Jensen’s (remember him) fourth pitch onto the train tracks.