The 1-for-24 disaster suddenly washed away. Seventeen strikeouts that defined major league embarrassment vanished. All Brett Wallace knew was he had just destroyed a baseball and his second home run of the day was a game-changer: a towering three-run blast that finally ended up in the shallow right-field stands, allowing the Astros to tie the Tampa Bay Rays in the eighth inning Thursday at Minute Maid Park and turning Wallace’s teammates into a shouting swarm. Wallace couldn’t hear the crowd. He couldn’t hear the shouts for a curtain call. Manager Bo Porter found his fill-in third baseman and forced him to the top step of the dugout. “I was so [...]