Cardinals at Astros, 8/30/2010
Astros 3, Polesmokers 0
W: Happ (5-2) L: Westbrook (7-10)
No save? Damn right.
JA “don’t call me J-A” Happ spun a 2-hit shutout Monday night to deal another blow to the reeling Cardinals.
Since June 1:
Astros 43-37
Jakes 39-38
Happ was as dominant as anything you could hope for. He faced 28 batters. He threw 4 pitches from the strech outside of the third inning, where he walked the leadoff hitter. He got 4 outs from Pujols in 3 at bats.
Much more of this, and we’ll speak of him in the same hushed tones as Angel Sanchez. Thanks, Ed.
Meanwhile, the Astros got on the board in the first when Lee blooped a 2-out pitch right on the RF line that then caromed wildly toward the wall, and Thunderpants raced through a stop sign (unsurprisingly) to score the run. They would later add two in the seventh, with Wallace providing a key double.
Ordinarily, a 1-run game would have seemed tense, but there was never any sense that the Co-Ards could score while Happ was pitching.
Let’s do this again tomorrow, shall we?