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Bond issue led to a rebuild of the stadium in early 2010s.

Very nice facility. EC has utilized the site for playoff games on occasion despite it being a smaller classification school.

Astros don't strand a runner at 3rd with no outs. Nice job Smith.

Pecko's old man beats his son in the best mustache contest.

This is normally a recipe for disaster. The fact the Astros are above .500 is a definite anomaly in this situation.

Yeah, you bunch of illiterate fatherless children. What Uncle Spudey said!! Sorry, my inner Sam Kinison kicked in there for a moment. Carry on.

It is essentially a boarding school. So residence halls (dorms) do exist.

This is accurate even for College students. As a professor I have had 18-20 year olds break down in my office about being away from home because they didn't want their coaches or teammates to see it they come to me. 89Falcon is right on this one.

What a strange game. He was projected as a guy entering free agency this off season to be worth 100 million on a 4 year deal. Then this season was played....and now he may get a 1 year "prove it deal" at a much lower per season level. Can he find lightening in a bottle for a few weeks? Astros could sure use a hot bat from an unexpected source.

And I should proof read. Sorry for all the typos.

The ball hit in front of the plate and the 3rd based umpire judged that the ball passes over rhe bag thus making it a fair ball. Where it lands after passing the bag dies not matter. The following is the wording you would find in the MLB rule book. Batted balls that first contact the field between home plate and first or third base are considered fair if they subsequently bounce over or directly contact either base, or otherwise pass either base while in fair territory. Was pleased to see the score and highlights this morning!

Yuck, but it's a win, 2-1. Astros follow up last night's loss in which they had 5 hits (all singles) with 4 hits today although 2 were for extra bases. Quality pitching the past 2 days. Rangers play tonight and tomorrow. Could be tied come Friday. Go Angels!

The Astros need to be moved to an all east coast division, play only in the division and all road games. Does it make sense....well to me it does.

Truly agree with your last point. Give a squad 2 pitchers that are top 15 in the league and 2 quality relievers. Everything else on the squad can be slightly below average and you've got a chance if you can just get in the playoffs. This is of course not the Astros squad this season just a thought in general.

I don't think he go his foot on the bag until after the tag. Even the great ones make mistakes and him not sliding was simply very bad baseball. Tough loss to take today. Real tough loss!

Imai may end up being extremely valuable if he can replicate tonight's performance a few more times before the season ends. We shall see.

Well we have a trade. Arrighetti for Daulton Varsho. Interesting. Varsho is a rental, as he will be a free agent after this season. Make a run and Varsho produces...good trade. Flounder and Arrighetti becomes a quality pitcher for several seasons...bad trade.

Who do the Astros have they would be willing to move, what could you get for the player(s) you would give up, who would need/want them, and what teams could build a better package with so many teams in contention this year? We could see a shocker move, a "flyer" move for an old pitcher as a salary dump for another team, and possibly nothing big or nothing at all. Wait, see, and wonder. Will be an interesting day across the league.

Alvarez hasn't hit a home run in 4 games. Probably won't hit one ever again. Hope the Astros can dump him before the trade deadline. Anybody miss somebody?? IYKYK.

The stat shown in game about Alvarez having 8 homeruns against the Rangers while only 3 teams have 1 more on the season than he has by himself is outstanding. He is a one-man gang!

Bullpen gave up 2 hits while recording 13 outs. Sousa gave up two walks but the other 4 guys gave up no free passes. Good ball game.

Along with leading the West, the Astros now have the same record as Cleveland who presently hold the final wild card spot. Nice change of status in just a few weeks for the club.

Imai has 2 more years guaranteed at 18 million per year. Even if you wanted to move him and some team sees tremendous upside in him, they wouldn't willing tell you that and you aren't moving a guy with a negative WAR and that much guaranteed money without eating a tremendous amount of it. Have to hope he can become a "dude" next year is the likely scenario.

As of today Yordan Alvarez leads the AL in runs, hits, HR, batting average, RBI, on base %, slugging, OPS (on base + slugging), total bases, and intentional walks. He leads a few other "stat nerd" categories as well. He's kinda good.

Wish this could occur for softball and baseball as well. However, overnight hotel stays with best of 3 series, the need to find turfed fields with May rains being such a strong possibility, and factors I'm not thinking of at the moment make it practically impossible.