Astros Defeat Regular Season Champs, the Cardinals

In the final game of the regular season, the Astros did me proud. We beat the Cardinals tonight - the regular season champions. As usual, "Joltin" Joe gave us 3 solid innings of starting pitching to pickup his second victory of the season. In his second appearance of the season, Cody "Hustle" struck out the side in the fourth and final inning, again with no hits and no runs. The real story, however, was the offense in the second inning where the Astros scored a whopping 14 runs to take a commanding lead which we never let go. The final score was 19-8. Your Astros Stars of the Game were:

• Joe, Cody, and everyone else!

The Astros finish the season with a 4-12 record while the Cardinals finished 12-4. The Astros will now take on the third place team (Reds or Athletics) in the first round of the playoffs in a week from next Tuesday. We'll be without three key players (Patrick, Connor and Andrew), but I am hoping the rest of the team shows up ready to play like they did tonight.

I'll have the final regular season statistics posted in the next few days (along with a final regular season video tribute).