Picture this. It’s late Saturday night, I’m at Prairie View’s homecoming and standing near a stranger’s RV watching the final inning of the Astros vs Yankees in game 6. I watched some of the game earlier, but turned it off when I left for PV so I was checking the score sporadically throughout the evening. I knew I wanted to watch the final inning so we headed over to where people had their RV’s parked in search of someone showing it. It didn’t take long before we found a crowd of people around a big screen and it was the top of the 9th inning and we were up, 4-2.
I feel like I looked away for a second and the next thing I knew it was a tie game and it was bottom of the 9th. Like every other Astros fan I didn’t want there to have to be a game 7 so I was delighted when I saw that some of our best hitters were queued up to finish the game.
One strike.
Two strikes.
Player walked.
Then Altuve comes up to bat. That 5’6″ giant is one of my favorite players. Not only is he incredibly talented, but the joy he puts out is so contagious! His dances, his laugh, his smile. He makes watching Astros baseball fun. Well ‘Tuve did his job that night and knocked it out of the park, getting us 2 home runs and cinching that victory for us. I was surrounded by strangers, but you would’ve sworn we were all friends they way we cheered at the end of that game.
We went through a lot this ALCS series. From postponed games due to bad weather (I don’t know these other teams still don’t have retractable roofs on their stadiums) to unsportsmanlike conduct from Yankees’ fans. I mean just some downright terrible people assaulting fans and Astros’ players’ loved ones with alcohol and debris, so this win was well deserved. I’m looking forward to us being back in the World Series and probably bringing home another championship. Our boys have worked INCREDIBLY hard this year and deserve it again. I was able to score some really cute shirts from State Line Designs and I look forward to wearing those to all of the watch parties and casual Fridays throughout the series.
Check out all of the State Line Design shirts so you have your gear for when we bring this ‘ship back home!