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SAN FRANCISCO -- Marwin Gonzalez hasn't come up huge this year like he did in 2017. This road trip, highlighted by his game-winning three-run homer Monday night, is giving him a chance to change all that. The Astros were down to their final out when Gonzalez, a 90-RBI man a year ago, jumped on a two-seamer from Giants lefty Will Smith and lashed it into the left-field seats, turning a deficit into a 3-1 Houston win.

"We're going to have to find a way to be an effective offense without the middle of our order being intact," Hinch said.

Astros outfielder George Springer went on the DL and is expected to miss two weeks with a sprained thumb.

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Astros employ an odd shift against the Rangers' Joey Gallo, placing Alex Bregman in left field as a fourth outfielder and makes the catch.

Analytics calling for extreme shift against Rangers slugger pay off in season opener.

Baseball has a lot of structure to it, so when a relatively mundane in-game move happens, like a third baseman backing up deep onto left field grass for an at-bat, it has a deeper psychological impact that it should. Today, Astros manager A.J. Hinch caught everyone’s attention and did a cool, smart thing by sending Alex Bregman into the outfield and leaving the entire left side of the infield uncovered against Rangers first baseman Joey Gallo, with success.