Angel 4
Astrolina 2
contributed by NeilT
It was three in the morning, a time I should have been asleep but couldn’t sleep. I was in my other room, the one where the bed wasn’t, waxing my surfboard and drinking rye from a jelly glass and the phone rang. Nothing good comes from a 3 am phone call, but then it kept ringing and I answered.
“Brad,” I knew that voice. I’d known that voice for too long. I should have hung up the phone, but I’m a sucker.
“Brad,” she repeated, “it’s me, Astrolina.” It was a voice that stirred honey and whiskey and smoke, and it was always trouble. At three in the morning if a voice like that’s on the phone, it’s never good.
“Brad,” she says, “Angel’s followed me to Houston.”
“What do you want me to do Astrolina. I’m home in San Diego, and I’m not coming to Houston. I’m done with that town.”
“She’s brought guys, and they’ve got guns. I need you. There’s no one else I can trust.” What can I say? I was on the next flight to Houston.
Angel’s muscle
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Angel is from Anaheim, that damned Disney town. It’s Boss Rat’s town, but it’s a tough town, a mean town, and there’s a guy with a price on every corner. Angel for once had firepower, and she’d come for a win.
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Norris pitched another nice game, going 7 innings with 4 hits, 1 run, no earned runs, and 5 strike outs. Castro put the Astros on the board first with a HR leading off the 4th. With Clemens on the mound Bourjos scored on a Shuck fly out and a Cedeno error in the 8th. With Ambriz on the mound Angel scored two more in the top of the 9th on an Aybar single. Dominguez drove in Pena on a sac fly in the bottom of the 9th.
Barnes had some highlight reel defensive plays in center. http://wapc.mlb.com/play?content_id=28421917He also managed an error. There were two Astros’ double plays, 1-4-3 and 5-4-3. Williams, for the Angels, pitched a nice game with a pink glove.
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I woke up in the weeds by the bayou. Those dwarves hit hard and long for more than three hours. Astrolina was there too, in not much better shape than me, and she was mad, and for some reason she was mad at me. You let them take it Brad. You let them take my win.
At least for once she thought it was hers.