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        <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Syracuse, N.Y.&nbsp;-- Syracuse Chiefs pitcher John Simms can't blink away the images that have rolled through his mind the past couple of days.</p>
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">They are the horrific scenes of his native Houston swept under the torrents of water brought in by Hurricane Harvey.</p>
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">&nbsp;But Simms is thousands of miles away from being able to lend aid and comfort, and he still has a job to do here.</p>
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">And he did it remarkably well on Tuesday at NBT Bank Stadium.</p>
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Making his first start since the disaster struck, Simms pitched seven innings of two-hit ball and struck out nine in a 4-1 win over Lehigh Valley.</p>
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">&nbsp;Simms grew up in the Houston suburb of The Woodlands and went to Rice, which is located in the city. His mind was eased with the knowledge that all his friends and family are physically OK, and that The Woodlands wasn't hit too hard. But the extent of the property damage suffered by his hometown circle is uncertain and likely to be massive.</p>
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">&nbsp;"A lot of my friends and family are affected. Everybody's affected by this,'' he said. "It's on a scale that nobody's really seen. So whether it's your house or somebody else's house, or your building, everybody's going to be affected by this, in some way shape or form. Life isn't going to be normal for a little bit. So, it's kind of emotional just to not be there and not be able to kind of help out.</p>
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">"You just see that these roads that you know are just gone. And they're now rivers. It's pretty weird. It's pretty crazy. Nobody's coming out of this one unscathed. Something's going to happen to you whether it's emotional or physical.''</p>
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Simms pitched with the Houston area codes of 713, 281 and 832 marked on his cleats. He said it wasn't possible to keep thoughts of his hometown from creeping into his mind during his preparation and the game.</p>
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">"I mean, there's Instagram stories, Snapchat stories of all my friends. I have one, this massive oak tree's just toppled over at Rice,'' he said. "You see people going outside and there's 30 feet of water and whirlpools forming outside of their apartments. It's kind of hard not to think about it.</p>
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">"There's not a whole lot I can do. That's probably the hardest part, is that there's nothing I can actually do from Syracuse, New York. But yet these are all the people that I know, and they're going through something that's pretty dam hard.''</p>
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