After breaking his thumb in the World Baseball Classic, the Astros' Jose Altuve is...
. Four days later, he had surgery. He beat the two-month projection by returning to the field to take ground balls six weeks after going under the knife and suiting up for the Class AAA Sugar Land Space Cowboys last week.
Altuve played in five minor league games in six days, going 1-for-13 in three games with Sugar Land and 1-for-9 in two nights with AA Corpus Christi. After his final game in Corpus Christi on Wednesday, he proclaimed that his thumbAltuve likely will return to his usual spot atop the lineup, which has been filled admirably by Mauricio Dubón, who is hitting a team-best .309 while starting 35 of the Astros' 43 games at second base.
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