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Gallo bunts to beat Astros' shift. Or did they beat him?

The moment that apparently many of the 31,722 fans at Globe Life Park had been waiting for since Opening Day arrived in the sixth inning Friday night.

Joey Gallo was up, all four Houston Astros infielders were stationed to the right side of the infield, and the Texas Rangers slugger dropped a bunt for a base hit.

It probably wasn't a perfect bunt against an infield playing straight up, but it didn't have to be with no one in the vicinity of third base to defend it.

The alignment wasn't the four-outfielder defensive shift the Astros employed during the season-opening series, which also left the left side of the infield vacated, but it was a shift that Gallo felt he could beat.