Box score Jerry Peacock couldn’t sit down. His son, righthander Brad Peacock, was less than a minute away from throwing his first offering as the Astros’ starting pitcher Friday against the Oakland Athletics at Minute Maid Park. Jerry, 64, once drove a trailer across the country, supporting the slow minor-league climb of the Astros’ new No. 4 starter. For years, the retired police officer – 33 years of service, he said — devotedly watched Brad’s warmup bullpen sessions. Used baseballs were collected as proof Brad was doing something real and lasting in the unforgiving world of pro baseball. When Jerry caught Brad’s pregame ball Friday before the A’s glided to [...]