April 19, 2007
Astros 8, Dicketies 6
W: Lidge (1-0) | L: Weathers (0-2) | S: Wheeler (3)
Yacks: Scott (2) Lane (4)
Pigpen watch: 2,944 (PH BB, Run)
Cuss it out, then hug it out in the GameZone.
Wax whether Woody wins again in the TalkZone
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O-o-oh, Alyson!
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Well, I’m not too big on the book learnin’ like some of those other contributors but I do know that there was some old, fancy writin’ that started out, “It was the worst of times. It was the best of times.” Or something like that. For the second straight night, the Good Guys scored loads in the 8th and more in the 9th to overcome a not so good outing from Woody Williams and take their second consecutive short series sweep.
1st cut, the deepest.
Inconsiderate clients caused me to miss the first inning and a mad scramble to my XM radio showed that a crooked number had already been posted by the Dickities via a walk to pissant candidate Ryan Freel, a bomb by Brandon Phillips and a double each by Josh Hamilton and Scott Hatteberg, although a perusal of the GameZone indicates Burke may have assisted in one of those. I cannot comment. Woody threw 23 piches in the inning and it looked like it could be a long night at Tammy Faye. Meanwhile, perennial 15-year-old Bronson Arroyo cruised through the Astros line-up, giving up only 1 walk and a double to Chris Burke through 4 innings. Woody settled down after a leadoff single in the 2nd to retire 7 of his next 8 batters, one of them a perfectly executed kick save to Berkman in honor of the NHL playoffs. Then, when shade-free Morgan Ensberg’s 5th inning double followed by a bloop single from the General and a Q DP got the Astros on the board, it looked like a ball game was brewin’.
The New Messiah?
Who’da thunk that the next savior of the Cincinnati Reds would come from a North Carolina crack house? The bottom of the 5th saw an Annoited Pissant single and a Dunn walk to bring up Josh Hamilton, the 25-year-old rookie who thought that playing for the Devil Rays was so bad, he decided to be a junkie instead. Well, he takes Woody’s first offering and deposits it right-quick-like into the right field seats and after a curtain call to appease the pale, chili-stained masses, the dust cleared to a 6-1 Dicketies lead.
Bully! Bully!
Woody made it through 6 innings and Lidge made quick work of the 7th. Arroyo gave up a rally-killing solo home run to LUUUKE in the 7th but got through the rest of the inning unscathed. Redfan probably wishes he could have gone a leeeeeetle bit longer. In the 8th, Kirk “Wolfhound” Saarloos walked PH Pigpen and gave up a single to Cool, Rockin’ Loretta. Sensing doom already, Narron brings in junk-spewin’ lefty Mike Stanton to turn around Twinkie. Uh-Uh. Seeing-eye single through the left side scores Bidge and now Narron’s hatband is soaked. With 1 out, in comes Weathers who gets Flapjack to ground to A.Gonzalez’ right but he boots it and everybody skates. Bases juiced for Hobbs and he smoikes it to the gap in right center. Cha-ching! Cha-ching! Cha-Ching! Tie ball game. Pigeon Shit adds a sac fly to score LUUUUUKE and the meltdown is complete. As bad as the Reds bullpen was, LMQW were stellar, giving up 1 hit and 3 Ks.
Oral Pleasure?
Uhh….never mind. Read it here. The Astros tacked on one more with a Lane solo HR and that was all she wrote. Next up, the nine-game road trip rolls on to Milwaukee for 3 this weekend. Brats and beer farts for everybody!