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In open defiance of the deliberately mean things known smarty-pants Keith Law has had to say, both Cavan Biggio (two walks and a two-run homer) and Randall Grichuk (a double to knock in two, giving him 28 RBI on the season, second-best in the AL so far, to go with his .305/.346/.508, and he's been a "plus" defender this year if you "go to FanGraphs at all") were awesome, and Marcus Semien put it away with a three-run home run in the top of the ninth that he barely hit and that barely got out of the really very silly ballpark they have caused to have constructed in Houston (I think of it as "the new one" but it is apparently twenty-one years old). Dan Shulman noted that, according to Statcast, Semien's home run would have made it out of precisely one major league ballpark; how fortuitous, then that it was the one at which they were currently playing! But for real, it wouldn't have even made it out of Fenway. Give your head a shake, Minute Maid Park. A nice start from Steven Metz, and good stuff from the Chatwood, Romano, Bergen pen. Your second-place Toronto Blue Jays remain very much in second place at a totally credible 17-15, but have yet to be three games above .500 so far this season -- might Sunday be the day? Young fireballer Nate Pearson on the mound! Against ancient soft-tosser Zack Greinke! Could be good!
KS
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