Rays a lot, Astros 0
W: Price
L: Bedard
Contributed by Reuben
You know, every team goes through bad spurts like this over the course of a season. It seems like every hitter is slumping at once, and/or they’re facing a bunch of good-to-great pitchers in a row, and just nothing’s clicking. It happens to every guy team. It just seems uniquely dire with the Astros because, well, they’re really not doing that much worse than they normally do.
So yeah, they got shut out, again, just recording a few measly hits, again. And they haven’t scored a run in 21 innings. Actually, it’s been even longer since they scored a run on their own merits, as that one 22 innings ago came home on an E5 by the Angels’ Alberto Callaspo. You have to go back to the 7th inning of Saturday’s game, which I’m gonna guesstimate was 29 innings ago, for the last Astro RBI, when Brett Wallace hit a 2-run homer.
But, you know, like, whatever, man. One day, they’ll have more than one or two good hitters on the team, maybe even a couple of great hitters, and it’ll seem like a genuine anomaly when they have a wretched, embarrassing five-game stretch like this where the offense can’t hit for shit. Yeah. OK cool. Now I can sleep.