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HOUSTON — The only ones who’ve embraced being the villain quicker than Adolis Garcia are legendary NBA sharpshooter (and Spike Lee tormenter) Reggie Miller and perhaps Hans Gruber, the German mastermind in the original Die Hard movie. The Texas R…
Read MoreARLINGTON — Yainer Diaz just starts jumping. The Houston Astros rookie knows that Jose Altuve has done it again. The Most Clutch Postseason Baseball Player of All Time flipped another gigantic game completely upside down, changed everything with one sw…
Read MoreARLINGTON — One hundred playoff games is a crazy number. Especially in a baseball world where Mike Trout’s played three playoff games in his life, Don Mattingly only got five in his entire career and even Ken Griffey Jr. had to be satisfied with …
Read MoreARLINGTON — Michael Brantley smiles on the baseball field only slightly more often than a total solar eclipse occurs. But after making the defensive play of these playoffs, after making his battered 36-year-old body move like it’s 10 years younge…
Read MoreHOUSTON — Every swing Yordan Alvarez takes is packed with meaning, powered by the possibility that he’s about to transform a game. Or maybe The Game itself. For the Houston Astros’ 26-year-old star is swinging on a higher plane this postsea…
Read MoreHOUSTON — After calling his unlikely postseason life “awesome” at the interview dais, wonder rookie Evan Carter returns to the visitors clubhouse at Minute Maid Park. He’ll pack up some food from the postgame spread into a styrofoam c…
Read MoreJustin Verlander admits he used to be extremely intense with his pre-start routines. And maybe a little wacky. He wouldn’t even let anyone tidy up and put away the plate he ate his customary game day cheeseburger on. Are you crazy? That would hav…
Read MoreDavid Ortiz, the jovial larger-than-life Red Sox turned national baseball commentator, jokes that he’s been to Minute Maid Park so many times for big playoff games that he’s “a Houston citizen.” There definitely is something fam…
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS — After another epic Justin Verlander bottle popping setup speech, after Chas McCormick and Framber Valdez prove that absolutely no one parties harder than them, after Jose Abreu gives thanks for just being able to be part of this Houston A…
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS — When you’ve hit 882 feet worth of home runs in a game your team needs to seize its Pat Riley worthy playoff destiny, you’re probably entitled to gloat a bit. That is not Jose Abreu’s way, though. And on a glorious sun an…
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