The NLDS ends with a bang

We were going to go see Serenity again at 3:45, because the baseball game would surely be over by then - it started at noon. Along about the 7th inning I went and took a shower because the Astros were losing. When I came back they were still losing, 6-1 - but then in the 8th the Astros got several hits, and I said, "Wow, all the breaks are going their way all of a sudden." (Much more nattering about baseball under the cut.) ( Read more... )

I don't know which one is the more unlikely hero, Ausmus or Burke. (Ausmus had three home runs this year. Count 'em, three. And he played four out of every five days.) But that kind of thing always seems to happen in the playoffs, with the unlikely heroes. At least it's happening to us this time instead of to the team playing against us.