Astros 5 Phightin’ Phillies 0
by Mr. Happy
Well, I saw her today at the reception
A glass of wine in her hand
I knew she would go meet her connection
At her feet was her footloose man
No, you can’t always get what you want
No, you can’t always get what you want
No, you can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes, you just might find
You get what you need
And I went down to the demonstration
To get my fair share of abuse
Singing, “We’re gonna vent our frustration
And if we don’t, we don’t blow a 50-amp fuse,” yeah
And no, you can’t always get what you want
No, you can’t always get what you want
Well, no, you can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You get what you need, baby
And I went down to the Chelsea drugstore
To get your prescriptions filled
I was standin’ in line with Mr. Jimmy
And man, did he look pretty ill
We decided to have a soda
My favorite flavor, cherry red
And I sung my song to my friend Jimmy
And he said one word back to me, that was “Dead”
I said
Oh, you can’t always get what you want
Oh, you can’t always get what you want
Oh, you can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes, you just might find
You get what you need
Oh, you can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes, you just might find
You get what you need
And I saw her today at the reception
In her glass was a bleeding man
And she was practiced at the art of deception
I could tell by her blood-stained hands
Oh, you can’t always get what you want
Oh, you can’t always get what you want
Oh, you can’t always get what you want
Oh, you can’t always get what you want
Oh, you can’t always get what you want
Oh, you can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You get what you need
On a night in which he should definitely have gotten his ass down to the Powerball store to load up on tickets, one very lucky Dallas Keuchel scattered five hits and sprinkled in four walks (and throw in a hit batsman—whole lotta traffic) in his 5.1 innings and 95 pitches (48 strikes; 47 balls) of work, but, and this is a huge but, he allowed no runs for his second win of the season against seven losses. And he, a .111 hitter, got a hit and scored a run. How rare is that?
How did Keuchel and co. do it? Let’s go to your Powerball numbers. The number “13” was big tonight, for that was the number of ground ball outs Keuchel induced, versus only one fly ball out, and that one was in the first inning. The number “10” also was critical, for that was the number of unsuccessful at-bats the Phightins had tonight with runners in scoring position. The number “12” played a part, which was the number of LOBsters the Phillies had in the ball game. Lucky number “7” came up big tonight, for that was the number of runners in scoring position that the Phillies left on base (and also the number of wins the Astros already have in September, against seven losses-.500 baseball), including “3” left on the third sack.
The Astros scored all the runs that they would need tonight in the first inning, courtesy of a Justin Maxwell two run dong, his sixteenth of the season. As noted earlier, the number “10” was in the mix big time tonight, which was the number of base knocks that the Astros garnered. This leads us to your Powerball number, which is “5”, the number of runs the home nine scored. The normally un-clutch hitting Astros were 4-13 w/RISP tonight, and they scored four runs with two outs in the inning-this is a .212 hitting teams with two outs and runners in scoring position. But not tonight.
The Astros try again to avoid loss number 100 tomorrow as they go for a series win with Jordan Lyles taking the bump against Roy Halladay. The Game Zone was lively tonight, although I caught some flack for telling the truth about Dallas Keuchel. I can take it. We indeed got what we needed tonight-a win.