Tonight: The first of 19 this year against the Astros.
Some feel that total won’t stop at 19.
It’s April 19, and the defending AL West champs (who, though decimated, charged into that perch while the other guys were busy bat-flipping and backing out) have a meaningless two-game edge on tonight’s opponent.
One team is leading the division right now, the other manning the basement, and that doesn’t matter at all. The season is 8 percent complete.
Texas may not go 13-6 against Houston this season, like last, but the effort to make the head-to-heads decisive again begins tonight.