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Astros' amazing run rolls on

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Monday, October 11, 2004

ATLANTA -- They don't know where this is leading. They don't even know who's pitching Wednesday. But for one night, it didn't matter to the Houston Astros what might await them over the horizon. This was a night to celebrate a poetic stop on an improbable journey down a 43-year-long highway. They ended the Atlanta Braves' season Monday night with a 12-3 thumping in Game 5 of a wild National League Division Series. But there was so much more to this story than that. The Braves have lived too ...

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