Astros Carlos Gomez: Week 18 Silver Star Winner

The game of baseball can be mighty fickle at times.

One week you’re up and one week you’re down.

But in most cases, one lives to fight another day.

That’s certainly the case for the Houston Astros this past week.

After going on a tear the previous week, the tables turned on them this week.

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Although the Astros came off a strong performance against the Arizona Diamondbacks, dropping the first game and winning the remaining two games of the series, they just could not get over the hump against the Texas Rangers.

Monday’s hopes of winning the first game were slim until Jason Castro hit a grand slam causing the game to get quite interesting eventually pulling the Astros…