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Stros beat Cards in Game 3 of NLCS

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JK, Carlos Beltran, and Lance Berkman cranked key yaks and Roger Clemens pitched seven strong innings to hand the ball to closer Brad Lidge as the Stros beat the Cardinals 5-2 in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series at a rockin’ Juice Box on Saturday afternoon. With the win, the Stros closed to within a game of tying the series, which the Cards lead two games to one.
After Larry Walker‘s solo yak in the first staked the Cards to a 1-0 lead, JK’s two out, two run bomb in the bottom of the first keyed a three run rally that put the Stros in front to stay. After Edmonds whacked a solo tater in the second, the score remained 3-2 until the eighth, when Beltran and Berkman’s massive solo cranks gave the Stros a three run cushion going into the ninth.
Meanwhile, the Rocket was magnificent and seemed to grow stronger as the game wore on. In his seven innings, he gave up just two runs on four hits, two walks, and fanned seven. He threw 116 pitches in a remarkable performance for any pitcher, much less one that is 42 years old. Lidge was equally effective in relief, giving up a single, a walk, and a hit batter in two innings while getting five of his six outs on strike outs.
A fully rested Roy O goes for the series tie in Sunday’s game against the Cards’ Jason Marquis. Inasmuch as Lidge threw 41 pitches today, the Stros need Oswalt to pitch deep into this one. The best approach would be to score some runs early and allow Oswalt to pitch with a lead, which he does well. Hold on tight for this ride because the Juice Box will be rockin’ again tomorrow.

The man known as “C.T.”

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Chris Tomlin is one of the emerging stars in the world of contemporary Christian worship music, and this Austin American-Statesman article profiles this outstanding Texan on the start of his 70 city tour with fellow Christian rocker, Steven Curtis Chapman.
Chris and I became good friends and golfing buddies when he was just starting his career at my church in The Woodlands about 10 years ago, and I have watched in admiration as his music career has continued to ascend after his move to Austin several years ago. This is truly one of those success stories that could not have happened to a nicer guy.
Coincidentally, I put in a call to Chris (or “C.T.” as he is known in golfing circles) yesterday afternoon to see if he could swing into Houston and play with me in a golf game on Saturday morning with Capitol Records country music recording artist, Dierks Bentley, who is in The Woodlands to perform at the Pavilion on Saturday night. Dierks is the younger brother of another old friend of mine, Bart Bentley, who is a longtime Houston real estate attorney.
C.T. was always quite a hearthrob to many of the teenage girls at our church during his time in The Woodlands, and he apparently has not lost any of his charm in that regard. The female reporter from the Statesman gushes as follows:

With this tousled blond hair, gleaming teeth and elfin face, he’s the stuff of teeny-bopper magazines. He’s 34 but looks a decade younger. And of course he’s sporting cool shades.

Give me a break. That adulation will cost C.T. several strokes of punishment on the first tee of our next big golf game. ;^)