1973 WORLD SERIES
Well, that was disappointing. The Astros defeat the Rangers 4-1 in the World Series, and the first baseball championship in Texas goes to Houston. Nothing could be worse!
I hadn't quite finished the team the way I wanted, but somehow Texas had the best record in MLB with 98 wins, and we made our way to the finals. Throughout the series, Houston did "feel" like the better team and my hitting especially isn't quite good enough yet. Not enough slugging to drive runs in.
Steve Foucault totally blew a save in the deciding 5th game too. You can see by the game graph we had it locked-up in the top of the ninth. But then disaster.
Oakland is shaping up to be my biggest rival in the AL West, but Houston is definitely my biggest overall rival by virtue of being in-state and beating us in our first World Series. New goal: do better than Houston in this save.
1973 Recap coming in the next post.