Boston scores go ahead runs in the 9th to beat the Astros 7-5.
WP: Junichi Tazawa (5-3)
LP: Josh Fields (1-2)
SV: Koji Uehara (11)
contributed by Sphinx Drummond
Same old story, same old song and dance. And when we get to the end, we’re going to start all over again. Lather, rinse, repeat. Second verse same as the first. And we’re back where we started, here we go round again. It’s the never ending story.
Have you heard the one about the team that couldn’t hold lead in the late innings? It’s not a comedy but it involves a comedy of errors, so to speak. Anyway, that joke isn’t funny anymore. It might be, if it wasn’t the truth.
The Astros have a well-established template for losing. Get a lead, have your starter pitch well enough for the team to have a lead in the late innings, have one of the relief pitchers come in and blow the lead and the team loses the game. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Cosart didn’t have his best, walking 5 and serving up 7 hits over 5 innings but left with the game tied at two runs each. Wright, Zeid, Blackley, and Lo, all worked in relief and managed to not blow the lead in spite of Zeid’s yielding of 2 runs–thanks in part to the Astros scoring 3 runs in the bottom of the 6th inning. Houston led 5 to 4 going in to the top of the ninth. Houston’s bullpen has 18 blown saves this season but it was only Field’s first blown save.
The Astros are off Thursday. Their Wednesday record has fallen to a less impressive 11 wins and 7 losses. Which is still amazing within the context of the season. Friday the good guys welcome the Arlington Rangers to town. Dickweed Matt Garza faces the self limited Eric Bedard.
Wanted: For Impersonating Relief Pitchers – Jose Cisnero, Josh Fields, Rhiner Cruz, Wesley Wright, Hector Ambriz, Travis Blackley
Time: 3:53.
Attendance: 22,205.
Weather: INDOORS