Friday, April 11, 2008
Astros 6
Fish 10
W: Nolasco (1-0) | L: Oswalt (0-3)
Jim Molony recap
AP via Yahoo!
Jogging was the theme of this affair, as the Fish took 6 celebratory laps around the basepaths, including 4 off of Roy. Having been spotted a 3 run lead after an inning, Sparky got torched for 5 runs in the third, and 3 more in the fourth before the hook came. The curve still hasn’t started working the way it needs to, and the fastball was hittable with nothing to keep the hitters off-balance.
The Good Guys made it interesting in the fifth, pulling back to within 2 on a solo cracker from Berkman, and a 2-run blast just inside the right field promotional chicken pole by Blum. That’s as close as they’d get though, never plating another run, while the Marlins tacked on a pair of insurance runs in the ninth, coming via solo smokies off of Villarreal.