Astros 3 Athletics 2
contributed by Mr. Happy
Brad Peacock clearly pitched his finest game of the year, pitching into the eighth frame for the first time in his big league career. Peacock outdueled a tough Sonny Gray 3-2 at the Shittyseum before a lackluster crowd of only 11,569 on an absolutely perfect night for baseball in the Bay Area. The young Astros starter surrendered five hits and two earnies in his seven-plus innings of work, fanning nine and walking but one. He had a very sharp breaking yellow hammer tonight and worked ahead in the count most of the night.
The Good Guys scored all of their runs in the first two frames. The Astros got a gift run that turned out to be important when Athletics OF Yoenis Cespedes failed to cleanly field a ball in LF, allowing Pagnozzi, who had singled, to score all the way from 1B. That’s some error, allowing a dump truck moving catcher to score from the first sack!
Bo Porter was run for vigorously protesting a safe call at the plate that scored an A’s run. I can’t figure Porter out: at times when I’d be out there defending my team, he’s sitting on his hands in the dugout, and then there are bang-bang plays like this when he decides to bitch enough to get run. Go figure. I’m unsure about Porter as a manager, but I’m not willing to give up on him yet. Like his players, Porter is the youngest skipper in MLB.
FIELDS!!! was spectacular in a four out perfect save, his third of the season. All in all, it was an excellent effort as the club improves to 47-93. Tonight, portsider Dallas Keuchel faces off against A.J. Griffin, who’s a pretty tough hombre, at the crappiest yard in the show at 10:05 EDT.
The NFL kicked off tonight with the Super Bowl champeens getting throttled by Denver 49-27. I didn’t watch as I wasn’t interested. I’m not yet ready for football, but, alas, it’s here and not going away. LSU is at home entertaining UAB. Our Toledo Rockets play their second consecutive SEC road game this weekend, travelling to Mizzou. Florida didn’t embarrass Toledo in their 24-6 win over the Rockets.