Crooked numbers on the scoreboard for the Astros were few and far between in the first eight days of the season. Perhaps the four-run inning they strung together in Tuesday night's 7-5 win over the Seattle Mariners at Safeco Field will be the start of something.
It all turned on what looked like a rather harmless flare to shallow right field. Sixth inning, two outs, bases loaded — and Astros pinch-hitter Evan Gattis floated a fly ball to right field.
In response to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle on Tuesday that he was atop Stanford University's wish list to become their next head baseball coach, Astros manager A.