• On Aug. 27, Barrett caused both benches to empty by jawing at Oswalt when the pitcher batted in the second inning. Oswalt went on to beat the Cubs 15-7, snapping their five-game winning streak and cutting their lead over the Astros in the wild-card race to six games. The Astros ended up snatching the wild card from the Cubs, and the Barrett-Oswalt incident was seen as the spark that fueled them.
One of my favorite Astro moments (as in one-second-of-Astros-baseball) was the look on Roy's face when Barrett started jawing.
It was that "I could kill you with my pinky fingernail, you swollen bitch, but if you want me to prove it to you in front of all these nice people, let's feel free to have a go at it, shall we, ol' chap" shit eating Mississippi grin.