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Game 5 Thread. April 1, 2024, 7:10 CT. Blue Jays @ Astros

I hope everyone is recovered from the weekend.

If you are a professional baseball player, and the Astros certainly are, you have forgotten....what happened this weekend?

I had to take on some people yesterday for my claiming the Astros were victims of bad luck to a large extent. I noticed that Brian McTaggart titled his game recap, “Luck Continues to Elude the Astros, 0-4.”

I’m particularly perturbed by those who claim the team choked in the ninth inning. If there had been strikeouts or weak grounders, I’d be the first to call it out. But Altuve, Alvarez, and Tucker all put the ball in play in ways that should have, could have ended the game.