The Pecan Park Eagle

John Greenleaf Whittier
~ Looking very much like an Astros fan who stayed to the bitter end of Game 3 in Chicago last night.

ASTRO*NOTES

WHITE SOX 3 – ASTROS 2 (11 innings)

Talk about running your way out of a chance to win, even when practically everything else failed to justify the outcome of a loss, last night was another example of why we need to stay as far away as possible from counting our chickens before they hatch. Sometimes the awareness that what happened last night on the south side of Chicago is just part of that big bucket of things that quickly fall into our “that’s baseball” bucket of explanations isn’t enough.

And it gets even harder to talk or write about it when you’re on the Astros side of the bitterly disappointing outcome.

Bitter disappointment? Yes. Bitter disappointment. The best description for bitter disappointment was published a long time ago. It’s also the best I can lean upon this morning and all that’s left that I want to say about last night’s broom sweep ride out of Chicago:

“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: “It might have been!”

~ John Greenleaf Whittier

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AMERICAN LEAGUE WEST STANDINGS

THRU GAMES OF THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 

AMERICAN LEAGUE WEST GAME SCORES

THRU GAMES OF THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017

WHITE SOX 3 – ASTROS 2. (11 innings)

 ANGELS 6 – MARINERS 3.

 ORIOLES 7 – ATHLETICS 2.

RANGERS (having a lone ranger off day)

AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING AVERAGE LEADERS

THRU GAMES OF THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017

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