We’re almost all still viewing the Houston Astros through the lens of the 2017 World Series, and how they won it, so let’s use it. Embrace the ways Thursday’s roller-coaster Red Sox win felt like that punch-counterpunch Game 5 against the Dodgers, even if we have to squint a little.
That October classic was fun. Thursday night was fun. Watching two great teams go back and forth, especially when one’s as unlikable as the Astros? Fun, fun, fun.
“They’re a big inning waiting to happen almost every inning,” Jerry Remy mused on NESN during the fifth, just after Eduardo Rodriguez needed 106 pitches to get 14 outs, but before Kyle Tucker doubled and made it Houston’s biggest inning of Thursday.