Astros fans have first baseman PTSD. Having endured the last futile years of Yuri Gurriel, then two years of Jose Abreu and/or Jon Singleton, patience for the newest first bagger, Christian Walker, was very short. And with his Mendoza line BA and .600ish OPS, the natives were getting restless. Some had the pots already boiling.
Is Walker’s dramatic ninth-inning, walk-off homer the beginning of the positive regression the optimists among us have been expecting? Is THE Homer the confidence booster Walker needs to fulfill his ample potential as a cleanup batter.
If Walker gets hot, along with Isaac Paredes and Jose Altuve, and with Yordan Alvarez soon to return to the lineup, is the whole Astros lineup ready for takeoff at long last?