Baseball just isn’t fair.
If it were, Framber Valdez would be the headliner tonight.
It was vintage Framber tonight. He allowed one run in eight innings, six hits, one walk, with seven strikeouts. He induced three double plays and had 12 groundouts and only two flyouts. Most of the hits were weak, seeing-eye grounders. He did not get the win.
But Royals starter Kris Bubic was about as good, and the Astros entered the ninth inning tied 1 to 1 thanks to a Jeremy Pena fifth-inning solo homer.