The Astros rallied heroically for Hondo Thursday night, getting three in the ninth to nip the Angels and reduce the dirty digits to 235 campanerises.

Friday night: Mr. Aitch will take a walk on the Sonny side of the street — 10 units on Gray’s A’s to win their battle in Seattle.

The “refusal to provide us with emails, text messages … limited the evidence available for our review and analysis.” Was that a reference to Tom Brady from the Deflategate report or to Hillary from the House Select Committee on Benghazi? … Hondo hears The Portly Pantsuit offered up some advice to Brady: Destroy your server immediately! … As the NFL mulls its punishment for the Patsies’ QB — apparently, nearly four months wasn’t enough time to tentatively assign blame AND mete out justice — now, more than ever, everyone should heed Gisele’s plea: “Pray for Tommy!” … It looks as though convicted cheater Bill Belichick will get off because he supposedly knew nothing about Deflategate. Evidently, the precedent that “ignorance is not a suitable defense,” which Roger Goodell famously applied to Bountygate, no longer is relevant, having been scrapped when the grossly overpaid commissioner totally botched the Ray Rice domestic-abuse case.