"As soon as the drops began to fall from the sky, Alex Avila looked out to his pitcher and made eye contact.

"Can you believe this?" Avila and Justin Verlander said to each other through the looks on their faces.

Certainly Verlander couldn't. On Saturday, for the second time this postseason, his opening series start had been washed out. At least in New York it rains with some regularity this time of year. But in Texas?

"What, someone told me it hadn't rained in 160-something days?" Avila said incredulously."