Porter calls Astros’ loss to Rangers a lesson in baseball
In this season of defeat after defeat interspersed with the occasional win, Astros manager Bo Porter was reduced Sunday to complimenting a veteran’s comeback effort and hoping a young pitcher can discover the fine line that prevents bad innings from getting worse. Astros pitchers Jordan Lyles and Edgar Gonzalez were the subjects in question during a 12-7 Mother’s Day loss to the Texas Rangers before 19,730 at Minute Maid Park. The Rangers shelled Lyles (1-1) for 11 hits and eight runs in four innings and got to Gonzalez, who arrived in Houston late Saturday night and Sunday morning was added to the roster spot vacated by Philip Humber, for four [...]
