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This was taken from the AP story of today's Astros - Pirates game.
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Backe made perhaps his best start of the year -- he struck out six and walked none -- despite having matters on his mind despite baseball. A native of Galveston, Texas, he has been spending most of his waking hours making sure his parents and other family members were safe before the hurricane.
His father left his home the night before but, because of heavy traffic, was 100 miles short of his destination Thursday. Lidge's wife also was in heavy traffic, and figured she would be stuck for at least 12 hours.
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``Once they start the game my focus is on baseball,'' Lidge said. ``But the moment I left the clubhouse and the moment I came back, I'm looking at the Weather Channel or CNN, looking at the hurricane. Obviously, a lot of guys on the team have family there. There's a great deal of concern because it's a very powerful storm.''
A number of players had their families fly to Chicago for the weekend. But Backe is worried because he can't reach many of his friends.
``It's definitely on my mind,'' he said. ``Who knows what's going to happen? A lot of my friends are not wealthy and I don't know if they'll be able to get out.''
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Backe made perhaps his best start of the year -- he struck out six and walked none -- despite having matters on his mind despite baseball. A native of Galveston, Texas, he has been spending most of his waking hours making sure his parents and other family members were safe before the hurricane.
His father left his home the night before but, because of heavy traffic, was 100 miles short of his destination Thursday. Lidge's wife also was in heavy traffic, and figured she would be stuck for at least 12 hours.
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``Once they start the game my focus is on baseball,'' Lidge said. ``But the moment I left the clubhouse and the moment I came back, I'm looking at the Weather Channel or CNN, looking at the hurricane. Obviously, a lot of guys on the team have family there. There's a great deal of concern because it's a very powerful storm.''
A number of players had their families fly to Chicago for the weekend. But Backe is worried because he can't reach many of his friends.
``It's definitely on my mind,'' he said. ``Who knows what's going to happen? A lot of my friends are not wealthy and I don't know if they'll be able to get out.''
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