This game felt like an Astros game in a parallel universe, a Bizarro world Astros game if you will. A game where the littlest Astros came up big, where the humblest Astros were the greatest, and where the mightiest and normally most heroic Astros were the meek who inherit the Earth. In sports they’re sometimes called losers.
After a road trip where all but one game was low scoring and close, in this game there were 14 runs, six by the Astros, even without most of their heavy artillery. And yet they still lost. And for the first time the Astros scored proficiently against a pitching nemesis who normally owns them.