Tuesday night’s game was the only one the Astros could hold on to win. While they gave up 8 runs, they were able to score 9 and get a win. Giving up 4 runs in the 9th made things a bit to interesting. Thankfully Myers is usually well rested and was able to get the save.
Wednesday night’s game started off bad for Bud Norris. He gave up 3 runs in the first and the Astros were not able to pick him up – AT ALL. They left runners on base during most of the innings. So many chances and they did not take advantage of them. Marwin Gonzalez also twisted an ankle or something. They never announced what happened at the game and I have not had an opportunity to read about it either.
Thursday’s game. What an absolute shitfest? The Astros were horrible. Happ started out well, as did his teammates, but when the wheels flew off the bus, they couldn’t find ’em. Giving up 7 runs in the 7th. Ugh. There were only two redeeming things that happened at this game. #1 Carlos Correa was introduced to the crowd – and was received well. #2 Brian Bogusevic was able to pitch in a major league game. He didn’t do any worse than the rest of the pitching staff for the night. Plus, the Astros had the best defensive line up out there. Wallace was at third and Snyder was a first. Great job dropping a pop-up between Snyder and Altuve. Oh, and Altuve missed covering first again in this game. The Astros just got beat to a pulp.
I find this incredibly insulting. At the game Thursday night, Neil and I were finally excited about the game in the 9th. We were both hoping Bogusevic would have great success, especially after the previous 8 innings. I guess the know-it-all-Cardinal fan in front of us (who let’s his kid wear Pujols’ jersey) turned around and told us, “you know he pitched in college.” Yeah, we know, Neil then told him, “Yeah, Tulane” and I just said, “Yeah, we know.” If the know-it-all had listened to us the whole night, he would have heard us at the beginning of the 9th inning exclaim our excitement about Bogusevic pitching. The damm guy was a squatter too. Moving to that section at the end of the game. Neil wanted to call security to have them move him from the seats, but I told him not to overreact.
Over all, I had fun at the two games I went to see because the company was great.
Go Astros, better luck this weekend.