White Sox 4, Astros 3
W: Noesi (4-7)
L: Keuchel (9-6)
SV: Putnam (3)
Good morning. It’s Possum Day. I feel like a possum in every way. Like a possum.
Wake up with a possum smile. Look at me! Look at this smile! Like a possum.
Things are all right, don’t worry about this. My mind’s amiss, I’ve lost the kiss…
Don’t call it a comeback. The Astros were beaten again, turned back at every opportunity by a team that can’t sniff .500 itself, but is again clearly the better team. Sloppy play – a Dominguez throw that sailed high and allowed a runner to score from second and Keuchel plunking a batter with the bases loaded contributed to an early 3-0 lead for the White Sox.
Springer smacked a bolt into the right-field seats in the fourth and Altuve doubled home Quique and Marwin in the top of the fifth to tie it up. De Aza tripled in the bottom half with one out though, and Tyler Flowers rang a double to left to bring in the winning run.
Two leadoff singles in the seventh were wasted by a failed sacrifice, strikeout and tapper to third. In the ninth, Grossman walked and Gonzalez singled with one out. Altuve was called out on strikes and then Putnam put out the fire by fanning Castro.
Remember that 14-6 run in May and June? I hope you do, and clearly too, because you’ll want to suck on that piece of gravel now that summer’s here and the Astros have gone 8-20 since. Gravity wins.
Got a hole in my heart the size of a truck
The size of a truckThe devil tried to fill me up but my down was high as the sky is up
Ain’t that just my luck
Calm as an angel