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It took him one game before he went deep again.
And then it took him four innings to it go yard one more time.
Anyone can go to the Crawford Boxes (just ask Roy), but Huff's second blast was truly towering, a shot on a 3 - 2 pitch that you knew was gone the instant it made contact with his bat, although it took a little bit of time before the ball finally disapeared into the farthest reaches of the right field stands.
Six RBI is of course a season-high for Houston, a career-high for Huff, and makes Aubrey one of three current Astros to have had a six-RBI game in a Houston uniform, along with Mike Lamb and Lance Berkman. Preston did it while with the Rockies in 2003.
Huff's ten total bases, while a career high for him, are not highest among current Astros, because Morgan Ensberg hit three homers and a single against San Fran last May 15. Ensberg shares that club record of 13 total bases in a game with Lee May and Jeff Bagwell.
Bagwell also is one of four players for Houston who once managed to best Huff's feat by one in amassing seven RBI's in a single game.
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I Guess Here
is a good place to say that the Astros last scored 14 runs against the Braves June 11, and that they last had as many as 15 hits July 23rd at the Mets.Oh, and on that October 2, 2004 game which was the last to feature six Astros homers: The perpetrators were Biggio (2), Kent (2), Ensberg and Bruntlett.
And I guess that game is notable among us Astros freaks for more than just the six homers, and for more than the fact it was the game before Backe's soulful effort on the mound in place of the ill Roger Clemens as the Astros clinched their first wild card.
It's also notable because the October 2 was won by Roy Oswalt, and 10/2/04 marked the first time he'd put together 20 wins on a season.
rastronomicals - August 9, 2006
Does anybody else think
that there's something incrediibly foreboding about the fact that Roy-O and Willy have homered recently in this nice little stretch we've been enjoying? it's almost like the baseball gods have had their laughs throughout the course of the season and are now sprinkling some truly remarkable shit down on this club as it slowly ascends back into the realm of mediocrity. i just hope they don't blow their proverbial karmic wad before this race is over. man was last night fun, though.littlevisigoth - August 10, 2006
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