Wowee. It’s hard to sum up a twelve-inning game featuring 29 combined strikeouts and 14 pitchers, but I’ll let MASN announcer Kevin Brown speak for us: “This is some stupefying stuff.” Ben McDonald had said earlier: “This team has no quit in them.” They’re both correct.

There are no symbolic victories in baseball, but this was an impressive, hang-tough effort by an offense whose bottom four players are new and a bullpen that’s trotting out names like Strowd, Enns, Hiraldo. I respect the effort here in giving a Houston team with playoff pretensions fits, forcing them to empty their bullpen and their bench while winning it, in the end, on a fluke play: a 60-mph dribbler to third by Ramón Urías (Why did it have to be Ramón?) that Jackson Holliday, trying for a double play, made a throwing er

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