Astros 6, Rockies 3
WP: Paul Clemons
LP: Edgmer Escalona
contributed by Sphinx Drummond
Wednesday the Astros faced the same team in Denver that they faced the day before in Houston, the Rockies. I don’t recall such weird scheduling. Is it a back to back two game series or is it a four game series in two towns with different DH rules for half the games? I don’t know. For some reason, this year inter-league play has become amorphous, blurry, and diluted. Like peeing on a water colored piece of art, Bud Selig continues to change the game into something less than it was. FYB.
In either the third game or first game of the series, with 26,881 in attendance, in a stadium named for a beer that nobody I know drinks, the Astros had Erik (the Red) Bedard going against the Rockies’ Tyler Chatwood. After a scoreless first inning, the Astros got the scoreboard working in the second with a single by J. D. Martinez followed by a double from Chris Carter. A sac fly by Matt Dominguez allowed J. D. to score and put the Astros up 1 to 0.
The Rockies came back to tie the game with one run in the fourth inning on a Troy Tulowitzky solo homer. A run in the fifth off an RBI double by Tulo gave them the lead. The Astros tied the game back up in the sixth on a sacrifice fly by Jason Castro, scoring Brandon Barnes. The score stayed knotted up until the eight inning when J. D.’s single scored Marwin Gonzales, giving the Astros the lead for good, but they would need some insurance before it was all over.
A homer by Carlos Pena, his fourth, in the ninth was all the insurance the Astros needed but for good measure, Marwin Gonzalez sac bunted in Trevor Crowe and Brandon Barnes singled to center field, scoring Jimmy Paredes. Tulowitzky added his second home run of the night in the Rockies’ ninth but it was not enough to stop the Astros.
Bedard pitched six strong innings for another solid outing. Paul Clemens pitched an inning and 2/3 of solid relief and raised his record to 3 wins against 2 losses.
I’m not sure who the baseball gods are. Their names remain a mystery but with the success of the Astros on Wednesdays, I think it’s possible that Wotan or Wodan, the guy Wednesday is named for, the Norse god of war, battle, victory and death, but also wisdom, Shamanism, magic, poetry, prophecy, is probably the norse god of baseball too. The Astros are 6 and 3 on Wednesdays.
Tonight Lucas Harrell, who hopes to bounce back after his horrendous last start, goes up against the Rockies’ Juan Nicasio, in the final game of the 2 or 4 game series.