HOUSTON – This is a story about Reggie Jackson and José Altuve. In October. Yes, in the same sentence. In the same breath. In the same small pocket of time just before World Series Game 2 became a story about their literal and figurative intersection.
“He is right there with him,” Astros hitting coach Alex Cintrón says about Altuve. “He has passed everybody.
“It’s crazy. Amazing.”
With five early runs, the Astros climbed back into the series with a 7-2 matching bookend win to the 6-2 Game 1 win by Atlanta. It was yet another postseason game that howled with laughter at how we think baseball in this Age of Information can be hacked like a computer code to figure out what’s going to happen.