HOUSTON – His teammates were out of the dugout, whooping and waving their arms, before Jorge Soler was even out of the batter’s box. With two on and two out in the third inning, Luis Garcia threw Soler a 3-2 cutter that was crushed so definitively that the pitcher didn’t even turn around to look where it went. He just hung his head along with a stadium full of Astros fans as the ball traveled 446 feet — out of the playing field, over the seats in left, over the train tracks that loom over Minute Maid Field, clear out of the ballpark and into the early November night.
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