Every Bit Texas

The Astros didn’t just beat the Rangers tonight. They erased them.

Final score: Houston 9, Texas 0. At Globe Life Field. In Arlington. On their turf.

But the real story isn’t the runs — it’s what didn’t happen across the entire ballgame. Not one hit surrendered. Not one. Tatsuya Imai took the ball and threw six innings of no-hit ball, allowing zero earned runs and walking four. That’s a tough needle to thread, but he threaded it clean. Steven Okert came on in the seventh and kept it going — one walk, one strikeout, nothing through. Then Alimber Santa closed it out with two more hitless innings to seal what became a combined no-hitter.

Let that land for a second.

The offense wasn’t quiet either. Christian Walker put the game away early, launching a home run and driving in three. Yordan Álvarez went deep as well — because of course he did. Nick Allen went 2-for-5 with a pair of RBIs, and Jeremy Peña crossed the plate twice and knocked in another. Christian Vázquez added two more hits. By the time it was over, it was a nine-run effort against a Rangers squad that finished with a line of zero, zero, zero on the pitching side.

This is the kind of game you describe to your kids someday. A combined no-no dropped right in the middle of Arlington on Memorial Day. Nobody saw that coming — and everybody on the Houston side is going to sleep smiling tonight.

Three more games in this series still to go. Rangers are going to want that one back.

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A stolen dress, a straw hat, and a daytime buzz that resulted in a ten-year ban from the Alamo City.

It was February 19, 1982. Ozzy Osbourne was scheduled to play the HemisFair Arena that night. Sharon Arden had hidden all his clothes to keep him in his hotel room and out of trouble. It failed entirely. Ozzy threw on one of her dresses, grabbed a straw cowboy hat, and wandered out into the bright San Antonio afternoon. He eventually found his way down the pavement of Alamo Plaza.

Nature called. Instead of finding a public restroom, the Prince of Darkness relieved himself on the Alamo Cenotaph. The sixty-foot marble monument honors the defenders of the Alamo, and local authorities do not take kindly to desecration. San Antonio police swooped in quickly.

He ended up taking his Bexar County mugshot wearing that exact same dress. Promoters scrambled to bail him out just in time for him to hit the stage at HemisFair Arena, but the fallout was swift. The city council slapped him with a decade-long ban from playing any city-owned facilities.

San Antonio holds a grudge, but they also appreciate a sincere apology. Ozzy returned in 1992, cutting a ten thousand dollar check to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. He came back to the plaza again in 2015, older, sober, and far more respectful.

Where were you when the Prince of Darkness took his infamous San Antonio stroll?

What happens when the oath you take requires you to protect the very people who hate you?

In 1983, the Ku Klux Klan decided to hold a rally on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol in Austin. They were immediately met by a massive crowd of anti-Klan counter-protesters. The air smelled of sweat and tension, and soon the sound of breaking glass and shouting echoed off the pink granite of the Capitol building. Things escalated fast. Rocks, bottles, and debris rained down on the Klansmen.
The city had deployed law enforcement to keep the peace. That meant forming a human barricade between the white supremacists and the furious crowd.

Photojournalist Bob Daemmrich snapped a photo that day that froze a defining moment in Texas history. A Klansman, visibly terrified, cowers behind a Black police officer in full riot gear. The officer has his baton drawn, eyes locked on the angry crowd, holding the line. He is doing his job. He is protecting a man who stands for his subjugation.

The sheer professionalism captured in this single frame is staggering. The officer's face shows total focus and discipline, completely ignoring the irony of the man pressing into his back for safety. It was a day that tested the limits of the First Amendment and the resolve of Austin law enforcement.

The Capitol grounds have seen countless protests, but few images capture the complex reality of duty quite like this one. You can almost feel the weight of that riot helmet and the heavy humidity of a tense Austin afternoon.

Have you ever had to do a job that completely conflicted with your personal beliefs?

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The Astros just swept the Cubs at Wrigley Field for the first time since 2011. Houston erased an early deficit with a massive five-run 5th inning, capped by Christian Walker's three-run homer off S***a Imanaga.

Final score 8-5.

Safe flights back to Space City.

Imagine wearing a heavy three-piece wool suit in the dead of the Texas summer, completely still, waiting for the sun to vanish.

On July 29, 1878, a group of scientists did exactly that. They set up their massive brass refracting telescopes at the S.W. Lomax farm just outside Fort Worth. Harvard astronomer Leonard Waldo led the expedition. Dallas photographer Alfred Freeman and local cattleman A.M. Britton joined them. They called themselves the Fort Worth Eclipse Party.

If you stood in that field around 3 p.m., the sensory shift was intense. The temperature plunged. The oppressive July heat broke. Historical reports noted chickens going to roost in the dirt right where they were feeding. Cicadas likely kicked off their evening buzz hours early. You would have smelled the dry summer dust and the oiled gears of the heavy telescope mounts. The clicking of those gears was the only mechanical sound for miles.

This was cutting-edge science for the era. The crew used a stone monument in the Court House Square to calculate precise coordinates. They mapped the sun's corona. They even searched the darkened sky for Vulcan, a hypothetical planet astronomers assumed existed near Mercury.

Did your family take photos during our recent 2024 eclipse, or are you still finding those little paper glasses in your car console?