Astros 16, Mariners 9
W: Clemens (1-0)
L: Maurer (0-2)
Contributed by Reuben
Since Tuesday’s Astros game didn’t start until 10:10pm, my time, and my wife is fighting a cold, I decided to just watch the game in bed. I often don’t go to sleep until 12 or later anyway, but evidently I was more tired than I thought, because I don’t even really remember the 1st inning, much less the rest of the game.… I’m guessing the Astros didn’t get a hit until the 6th or 7th, and probably kept it close for a while – maybe they were only down 2-0 until Seattle scored 5 in the 6th, effectively ending the game. But that’s nothing new, and therefore not even worth looking up; I’m sure everyone’s sick of reading about the last loss. So instead I’ll tell you about this crazy dream I had.
Last night I had the strangest dream
I’ve ever had before.
I dreamed the Astros all agreed
to score and score and score.
In my dream – I think it was Wednesday morning, 3 AM when I was having this dream – the Astros didn’t just strike out again and again, and struggle to even get the ball out of the infield, and they didn’t make a lot of stupid mistakes on defense or on the bases. They didn’t wait until the 2nd half of the game to put any runs on the board… nope, they just came right out of the gate, swinging the big bats. Altuve led off with a hit, ok, fine, but then it really started getting weird: Maxwell got a hit, Castro (who, oddly, was batting third in my dream) got a hit, then Carlos Pena not only didn’t strike out, he actually almost hit a grand slam, settling for a 2-run double, and then it all kind of muddles together, the way dreams do – they just kept on scoring. JD Martinez hit a HR, Carter had two HR and four hits! Even Marwin hit a HR! Like I said: a really bizarre dream.
Funnily enough, every Brett Wallace AB in my dream was like a recurring nightmare; he just kept striking out over and over. But the rest of the team, it was like the balls were metal, and they had magnets in the barrels of their bats. JD Martinez had a crazy RBI single on a slider that broke way down and away; his bat somehow just went right to where the ball was going and hit a line drive into left field. Also, I must’ve been thinking too much about the tandem starters thing Luhnow’s doing with the minor league pitchers, because in my dream the Astros had two SP each throw 4 innings.
And the people in the visitor’s clubhouse
Were dancing round and round
And bats and gloves and uniforms
Were scattered on the ground
Read commentary on the actual game in the GameZone thread. I’m sure they made it entertaining despite having to endure another pitiful loss full of strikeouts and goose eggs.