Astros star Lance McCullers Jr. jumps back from ugly starts, death threats

The Houston Astros achieved a huge, urgently needed victory over its hated rival Texas Rangers on Friday evening to connect the series in Arlington two more games in Arlington this weekend.

It was a big inning of six runs for Houston, which wore the water offensive, including a big night from the fighting Star First Baseman Christian Walker.

However, in order to get to this point, the Astros needed another start of quality, and it was a difficult question from Lance McCullers Jr., which fell off the events of the past week.

At the beginning of the last week against the Cincinnati Reds, McCullers could only get one out and was also charged with seven deserved runs while playing three, but it was after the game when he revealed the ugly reality of a professional athlete.

McCullers gave the media warm that he and his family had received murder threats after his poor performance and that his children's life was threatened.

Instead of unpacking it, the competitive veteran came out on Friday and threw four innings to enable two runs, but none of them were earned.

It was far from the Vintage All-Star version that Houston came out of McCullers in recent years, but the 31-year-old still works back from injuries from three full years.

Nobody expects the right-hander to suddenly be a CY-boys candidate again, but if he can be a capable, swinding guy who can give four to five high-quality innings if he takes the hill, this will absolutely offer a thrust.

This is the exact type of Pitcher McCullers, which was still shown on Friday evening, and after it looked as if his career has been over several times in recent years, the Astros will take it.

Although it would be nice, you certainly don't need it to be an ace or really anything nearby, you already have some of you.

However, since the pitching of this team goes back from injuries that can continue to be stacked, it would be extremely valuable to rely on McCullers in order to offer a kind of stability in the back.

He clearly has a few more options, but Friday evening was a sign that progress was made and should give fans the hope that McCullers still have something left in the tank.