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Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« on: September 04, 2017, 05:23:37 pm »
Your lineups for tonight's road tilt:

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RFGeorge Springer (R)
3BAlex Bregman (R)
2BJose Altuve (R)
SSCarlos Correa (R)
LFJosh Reddick (L)
DHY. Gurriel (R)
1BMarwin Gonzalez (S)
CBrian McCann (L)
CFCameron Maybin (R)

HOU: Dallas Keuchel (L)  (11-3, 2.91)

Seashits

SS Jean Segura (R)
RF Mitch Haniger (R)
2B Robinson Cano (L)
DH Nelson Cruz (R)
3B Kyle Seager (L)
1B Danny Valencia (R)
C Mike Zunino (R)
CF G. Heredia (R)
LF Taylor Motter (R)

SEA: Erasmo Ramirez (R)  (5-5, 4.43)
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2017, 05:40:35 pm »
I love this lineup with Maybin hitting 9th.
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2017, 05:42:39 pm »
I love this lineup with Maybin hitting 9th.

Reminds me of a lineup I once knew.
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2017, 05:43:34 pm »
Reminds me of a lineup I once knew.

Exactly
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2017, 05:44:16 pm »
Reminds me of a lineup I once knew.

I don't remember an Astros leadoff hitter quite like Springer though.


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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2017, 05:45:51 pm »
T1:

Springer...0-2...1-2...grounds out 5-3
Bregman grounds out 5-3
Altuve...3-2...strikes out swinging

No score
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2017, 05:46:21 pm »
I don't remember an Astros leadoff hitter quite like Springer though.


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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2017, 05:48:16 pm »
I liked Erasmo when he was with TB, pity he ended up with these bastards.
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #8 on: September 04, 2017, 05:49:54 pm »
Did you forget April - July 2017?

August was a cruel month, apparently most detrimental to my mind.


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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #9 on: September 04, 2017, 05:53:55 pm »
August was a cruel month, apparently most detrimental to my mind.


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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #10 on: September 04, 2017, 05:56:51 pm »
M's with three singles in the first...lead 1-0...two on, two out...
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #11 on: September 04, 2017, 05:58:26 pm »
I had hoped that Verlander's presence would make Keuchel step his game up in order to maintain staff ace status. Early returns suggest otherwise.


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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #12 on: September 04, 2017, 05:58:43 pm »
B1:

Segura with an infield single up the middle...Correa dives and knocks it down, but can't stay with it
Haniger...0-2...strikes out swinging
Cano...0-2...strikes out swinging
Cruz with a seeing eye groundball single to LF,..Segura to 2B
Seager singles to RF on the first pitch...Segura scores, Cruz to 3B
Valencia grounds into FC...Seager out 6-4 at 2B

1-0 Mariners
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #13 on: September 04, 2017, 05:59:35 pm »
Seeing eye soft contact hits
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #14 on: September 04, 2017, 06:00:33 pm »
I don't remember an Astros leadoff hitter quite like Springer though.


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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #15 on: September 04, 2017, 06:00:43 pm »
I had hoped that Verlander's presence would make Keuchel step his game up in order to maintain staff ace status. Early returns suggest otherwise.


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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #16 on: September 04, 2017, 06:03:44 pm »
I liked Erasmo when he was with TB, pity he ended up with these bastards.

"Erasmo" is another great name BZ should think about.
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #17 on: September 04, 2017, 06:07:15 pm »
T2:

Correa strikes out swinging
Reddick lines out to RF on a nice running grab
Gurriel...full count...singles to LCF...Heredia cut it off nicely to prevent a double
Marwin flies out F7

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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #18 on: September 04, 2017, 06:17:54 pm »
B2:

Zunino...0-2...strikes out swinging
Heredia grounds out 5-3
Motter...3-2...chops towards 3B, Keuchel off the mound to field it, but clanks it...E1
Motter steals 2B on a Congerish throw by McCann
Segura grounds out 5-3...Bregman bobbled it, but kept it in front and threw him out

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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #19 on: September 04, 2017, 06:23:17 pm »
Motter has the kind of hair I imagine adorned Chuck's pate circa 1980.
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #20 on: September 04, 2017, 06:27:47 pm »
Motter has the kind of hair I imagine adorned Chuck's pate circa 1980.

Aside from having dark hair, chuck was like 11 in 1980. 
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #21 on: September 04, 2017, 06:30:02 pm »
T3:

McCann...full count...strikes out swinging
Maybin strikes out looking
Springer...3-0...3-1...3-2...singles to CF
Bregman strikes out swinging

1-0 Mariners
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #22 on: September 04, 2017, 06:34:28 pm »
B3:

Haniger grounds out 6-3 on the first pitch
Cano grounds out 4-3
Cruz flies out F8

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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #23 on: September 04, 2017, 06:35:35 pm »
Aside from having dark hair, chuck was like 11 in 1980.

Right, so probably the early to early-middle part of his "CBGB period"?


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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #24 on: September 04, 2017, 06:38:43 pm »
T4:

Altuve grounds out 5-3 on the first pitch
Correa flies out F8 on the first pitch
Reddick flies out F7

five pitch inning...M's up 1-0
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #25 on: September 04, 2017, 06:45:16 pm »
B4:

Seager grounds out 4-3
Valencia grounds out 6-3
Zunino grounds softly to 2B...shiftfuck single
Heredia grounds out 5-3

1-0 still
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #26 on: September 04, 2017, 06:48:18 pm »
La Pina!!!

Ties it up
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #27 on: September 04, 2017, 06:48:27 pm »
Yuli G!!!!
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #28 on: September 04, 2017, 06:48:53 pm »
Yuli's back!
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #29 on: September 04, 2017, 06:50:47 pm »
McCannonball!!

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« Reply #30 on: September 04, 2017, 06:50:54 pm »
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #31 on: September 04, 2017, 06:51:01 pm »
McCann!!!!
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #32 on: September 04, 2017, 06:56:06 pm »
T5:

Gurriel homers to LF
Marwin grounds out 3-1 on the first pitch
McCann homers to RF
Maybin...3-0...walks
Springer pops out F3
Bregman pops out F5

2-1 Astros
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #33 on: September 04, 2017, 07:01:02 pm »
Springer F3
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #34 on: September 04, 2017, 07:03:16 pm »
B5:

Motter grounds out 5-3
Segura grounds out 4-3
Haniger strikes out swinging

2-1 Astros
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #36 on: September 04, 2017, 07:11:41 pm »
T6;

Altuve flies out F8
Correa grounds out 6-3
Reddick walks
Gurriel flies out F9

2-1 Astros
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #37 on: September 04, 2017, 07:18:14 pm »
Seager hits at 2-out meatball about 400 mph to CF to tie this game up
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« Reply #38 on: September 04, 2017, 07:18:31 pm »
That was not a very good pitch by Keuchel, and he paid for it.
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #39 on: September 04, 2017, 07:19:01 pm »
B6:

Cano grounds out 4-3
Cruz grounds out 4-3
Seager homers to CF
Valencia flies out F9

New ball game...2-2
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« Reply #40 on: September 04, 2017, 07:19:26 pm »
Got lucky with Valencia. That pitch was in the middle of the plate, too.
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #41 on: September 04, 2017, 07:27:42 pm »
First two Astros reach in the 7th...

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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #42 on: September 04, 2017, 07:30:03 pm »

Harder pronounce or spell Rzepczynski?
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« Reply #43 on: September 04, 2017, 07:31:41 pm »
Harder pronounce or spell Rzepczynski?

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« Reply #44 on: September 04, 2017, 07:31:58 pm »
Great bunt.
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #45 on: September 04, 2017, 07:32:26 pm »
Astros with the bases drunk...one out...
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #46 on: September 04, 2017, 07:32:49 pm »
I had a professor in college whose surname was Dick. Doctor Dick. Actually, now that I think about it, I'm not sure that I ever took a class of his but I was something of a force in the department and I knew everyone and everyone knew me. At one of the initial department meetings of undergraduates a graduate student, a woman, told us, shockingly, I thought, that women should be aware of Professor Dick because at department parties he would 'get drunk and try to take advantage of you.'

First of all, to make that sort of accusation publicly you really need to be able to substantiate it. Second, Professor Dick was plainly a homosexual. Still is, if he's still alive. So it was kind of weird.

I guess I got to know him better when I ended up teaching some of his first year classes and we ended up discussing various students over the course of the semesters. I was strangely respected by my/his students. That's a gratification that I draw from more often than you might think.

I last saw Doctor Dick on the DC Metro. He was northbound on the Red Line, bound for Shady Grove, I should clarify. I was exiting I suppose. It was in the afternoon, right around rush hour. I must have been exiting at Tenleytown. My rich girlfriend would drive over and wait for me as I returned home from work. Anyway, I saw him standing inside the train and sort of hoped he wouldn't see me outside. But he did, of course, and he took two long, quick strides towards the window and half playfully jabbed his index finger into the window, hard, with a sort of don't be a stranger look.

But I never went back there until I had to go to the emergency room, and at that point I didn't really have the time for social calls.

Of course, that was when I had hair like Taylor Motter. It looked awesome.
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #47 on: September 04, 2017, 07:33:38 pm »
Bregman!! Dude is HOT!!
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« Reply #48 on: September 04, 2017, 07:33:39 pm »
Bregman with a 2-run double!

Another intentional walk loads the bases for Correa...one out...
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« Reply #49 on: September 04, 2017, 07:34:14 pm »
Great baseball sequence to see maybin put down the nice sac bunt to first with soft hands, "catching the ball" with the barrel and then Bregman rips a liner the other way to score 2.


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« Reply #50 on: September 04, 2017, 07:35:09 pm »
2- outs...bases still juiced for Reddick...
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« Reply #51 on: September 04, 2017, 07:37:01 pm »
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« Reply #52 on: September 04, 2017, 07:37:37 pm »
Reddick with a 2-run knock!

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« Reply #54 on: September 04, 2017, 07:39:27 pm »
Maybin is a great pickup. I hope we bring him back.
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« Reply #55 on: September 04, 2017, 07:41:16 pm »
T7:

Rzepczysnki in for the M's...

Marwin singles to CF
Marwin to 2B on a wild pitch...blocked, but a good read and jump...now scored a stolen base...not sure why...now changed back to wild pitch
McCann...3-2...walks

Alphabet out...Vincent in...

Maybin sacrifice bunt...1-4...Marwin to 3B, McCann to 2B
Springer intentionally walked to load the bases
Bregman doubles to RF...Marwin scores, McCann scores, Springer to 3B
Altuve intentionally walked to load the bases
Correa...0-2...strikes out swinging
Reddick singles to LCF...Springer scores, Bregman scores, Altuve to 3B and Reddick to 2B on the throw to 3B

Vincent out...Altavilla in..

Gurriel...0-2...1-2...pops out F4

But the Astros bat around...lead 6-2 at the stretch
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« Reply #56 on: September 04, 2017, 07:42:41 pm »
Maybin is a great pickup. I hope we bring him back.

That was just good baseball.  And it paid off.
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« Reply #57 on: September 04, 2017, 07:42:57 pm »
Maybin is a great pickup. I hope we bring him back.
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« Reply #58 on: September 04, 2017, 07:44:34 pm »
For those not watching the telecast, Springer's and Bregman's runs are the first that Vincent has allowed at home this year.
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« Reply #59 on: September 04, 2017, 07:51:50 pm »
B7:

Zunino strikes out swinging
Heredia singles up the middle
Motter walks, Heredia to 2B
Segura grounds into 4-6-3 double play

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« Reply #60 on: September 04, 2017, 07:52:29 pm »
Whew!
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« Reply #61 on: September 04, 2017, 07:53:25 pm »
Correa's return after an absence has rekindled my awareness that he is a beastly centaur of a man compared to most shortstops.


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« Reply #62 on: September 04, 2017, 07:56:20 pm »
Marwin starting to heat up again. That would be a really good development.
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« Reply #63 on: September 04, 2017, 07:57:37 pm »
Fucking TV guys...stop with the clinch talk!
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« Reply #64 on: September 04, 2017, 08:04:25 pm »
Springer has been a popup machine.
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« Reply #65 on: September 04, 2017, 08:04:32 pm »
T8:

Marwin singles to LF
Marwin to 2B on a passed ball
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Springer pops out F2
Bregman flies out F7

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« Reply #66 on: September 04, 2017, 08:05:31 pm »
Fucking TV guys...stop with the clinch talk!

I reached for the mute button.
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« Reply #67 on: September 04, 2017, 08:07:43 pm »
Maybin is a great pickup. I hope we bring him back.

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A few things. First of all, Biz can't just go claiming every goddamned Polish revolutionary who ever donned a sombrero. He needs to leave some for the rest of us.

Two, when I was a kid I was blond as all get out. At some point right around 1980 my hair darkened. I went several more years thinking I was blond. I didn't have any special attachment to being blond, I just always had been. Back then the aim of whoever was cutting my hair seemed to be Let's see how many horizontal lines I can create on this kid.

Three, I played at CB's many times, of course. Some nights there were even people actually in there while we played.

Four, my Motter hair was, appropriately enough since we're speaking of Seattle, in the early 90's. Looking at him now, my hair wasn't nearly as long then but it was long. Long enough to where at one point a fairly famous rock star took my then girlfriend aside and asked her with some concern, Does he think that looks good?
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« Reply #69 on: September 04, 2017, 08:12:05 pm »
Keuchel trying to see just how exciting he can make this. And then Correa bails him out.
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« Reply #70 on: September 04, 2017, 08:12:42 pm »
Wow...Haniger needs some baseball lessons.
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« Reply #71 on: September 04, 2017, 08:13:02 pm »
Hell of a DP by Correa.
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I missed that centaur

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« Reply #73 on: September 04, 2017, 08:14:40 pm »
How actually would a centaur turn a DP?
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A few things. First of all, Biz can't just go claiming every goddamned Polish revolutionary who ever donned a sombrero. He needs to leave some for the rest of us.

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« Reply #75 on: September 04, 2017, 08:15:23 pm »
Keuchel out with two out, one on in the 7th...Liriano in
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« Reply #76 on: September 04, 2017, 08:15:47 pm »
Wow...Haniger needs some baseball lessons.
Looked like he crapped himself, thought Carlos was going to shirtfront him.
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« Reply #77 on: September 04, 2017, 08:16:27 pm »
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« Reply #78 on: September 04, 2017, 08:18:07 pm »
We'll see.

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« Reply #79 on: September 04, 2017, 08:20:44 pm »
B8:

Haniger...3-2...singles to LF
Cano...full count...grounds into 6U-3 double play because Haniger is an idiot
Cruz...3-2...walks

That's it for Keuchel...Liriano in

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« Reply #80 on: September 04, 2017, 08:23:08 pm »
So 3 pitches in a different area code,  including a WP, before he finally gets a groundout with no runs scored.

Liriano's Brest outing as an Astro? 

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« Reply #81 on: September 04, 2017, 08:26:56 pm »
T9:

Garton in for the M's

Altuve grounds out 4-3
Correa flies out F8
Reddick...0-2...flies out F8

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« Reply #82 on: September 04, 2017, 08:27:55 pm »
So 3 pitches in a different area code,  including a WP, before he finally gets a groundout with no runs scored.

Liriano's Brest outing as an Astro?

He got a lefty out.  Is that his first as an Astro?
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« Reply #83 on: September 04, 2017, 08:34:45 pm »
So 3 pitches in a different area code,  including a WP, before he finally gets a groundout with no runs scored.

Liriano's Brest outing as an Astro?

McCann should have caught the WP, and the balls were low and away. Are you watching TV or Gameday?
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« Reply #84 on: September 04, 2017, 08:34:58 pm »
T9:

Giles in to try to close out the non-save

Gamel, pinch hitting for Valencia, strikes out swinging
Zunino strikes out swinging
Heredia strikes out swinging

Astros win!!
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« Reply #85 on: September 04, 2017, 08:35:26 pm »
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« Reply #86 on: September 04, 2017, 08:36:35 pm »
McCann should have caught the WP, and the balls were low and away. Are you watching TV or Gameday?

Just gameplay.  Probably exaggerated.

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« Reply #88 on: September 04, 2017, 08:36:47 pm »
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« Reply #89 on: September 04, 2017, 08:37:07 pm »
Giles has really come into his own
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« Reply #90 on: September 04, 2017, 08:40:23 pm »
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« Reply #91 on: September 04, 2017, 08:41:12 pm »
Need to go 16-9; could be doable
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« Reply #92 on: September 04, 2017, 09:08:59 pm »
So apparently Scioscia used all 12 available pitchers tonight.

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« Reply #93 on: September 04, 2017, 09:14:24 pm »
So apparently Scioscia used all 12 available pitchers tonight.

On the telecast they said that three of those pitchers didn't retire anybody.
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« Reply #94 on: September 04, 2017, 09:22:41 pm »
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« Reply #95 on: September 04, 2017, 11:27:49 pm »
So looking forward to tomorrow.
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« Reply #96 on: September 05, 2017, 05:22:49 am »
Don't think I've ever looked forward to a regular season game more.

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« Reply #97 on: September 05, 2017, 05:41:39 am »
Randy Johnson's first Astros start in '98 is comparable for me.
I was 7... so I didn't really comprehend who randy Johnson was, only that he was tall!

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I was 7... so I didn't really comprehend who randy Johnson was, only that he was tall!

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« Reply #99 on: September 05, 2017, 08:13:45 am »
Yeah, I thought about that after I posted. Incredible (to me), 1998 is almost 20 years ago.
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« Reply #100 on: September 05, 2017, 09:41:56 am »
How awesome is it to have a lineup where two guys are intentionally walked in order to face guys named Bregman and Correa?
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« Reply #101 on: September 05, 2017, 10:49:05 am »
20 ago I was reading baseball scores in the newspaper that were two days old by the time I saw them, in the post season we would get an article now and then.
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #102 on: September 05, 2017, 06:48:27 pm »
Randy Johnson's first Astros start in '98 is comparable for me.

Bonus points for the RJ trade because his first start was in Houston, and, IIRC, on a Friday night. I don't remember for sure, but it was electric in the dome and I acted like it was a Friday night because I was in high school, so it will always feel like a Friday night to me.


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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #103 on: September 05, 2017, 06:56:19 pm »
I'm pretty sure RJ's first start as an Astro was in Pittsburgh.
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Re: Astros @ Seashits September 4, 2017
« Reply #104 on: September 05, 2017, 09:08:16 pm »
I'm pretty sure RJ's first start as an Astro was in Pittsburgh.

You're right. The second start was at home vs. Philly.


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