The Houston Astros Still Run Texas Baseball

Rangers versus Astros. Three roaring crowds, first place on the line, September baseball the way it has never been in the Lone Star State. On Labor Day afternoon, in front of a packed house at Arlington’s Globe Life Field, arguably the most important regular-season series ever played in Texas got off to a fabulous start with a back-and-forth game that was tied 5–5 entering the seventh inning.Pretty much nothing in sports is as much fun as pennant-race baseball, in which entire seasons seemingly ride on every pitch. We’ve watched it for years in other places and times, like those seasons when the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees unleash a century of spite on each other. It’s beautiful, exhausting, and finally ours.This has been…

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