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HOUSTON -- The goosebumps started when Gary Pettis approached the clubhouse at Minute Maid Park on an otherwise quiet Tuesday afternoon. He couldn’t wait to walk through those doors and see the faces on the other side -- faces he had only seen on television for the past nine months.
He missed everything about the job -- the banter with the players, the pregame preparation, the excitement following a thrilling victory. And there have been so many of those the last few years. Pettis -- third-base coach, friend, cancer survivor -- returned to work Tuesday, and there wasn’t a single person who wasn’t glad to see him.