Astros 5
Red Sox 4
WP Fields (3-1)
LP Breslow (0-1)
submitted by Mr. Happy
Attendance 30,748
Time 3:31
The Good Guys rode a 4-5 night by the Piranha, culminating in a walk-off shibby, together with two other longballs, in besting the BoSox 5-4 in the third game of a three game set, resulting in a sweep of the nine from Beantown. The Red Sox are clearly a mess right now.
Young Lance McCullers wasn’t his best on long-time rest, suffering from poor fastball command. McCullers was battling himself a bit out there too. However, he did manage to give the club five innings of six hit two run ball, which kept us in the ballgame. Despite not having good command either (55 strikes 52 balls), Wade Miley survived six frames of one run ball and left with a lead.
The BoSox were winning 2-1 at the end of six frames, but the Good Guys put up a crooked (three) number in the seventh to take a 4-2 lead, thanks in part to a solo pinch hit dong by Colby Rasmus and doubles by Marwin Gonzalez (who’s been absolutely locked in from both sides of the dish for a few weeks now) and phenom Carlos Correa. In the first inning, Marwin Gonzalez hit his seventh home run in the first frame off of Miley, batting right-handed. His double over the head of Red Sox CF Mookie Betts came from the left side off of Junichi Tazawa, who’s a tough hombre.
However, what the Good Lord giveth, He also taketh away. The normally reliable Will Harris surrendered the lead with some help from the equally reliable Luke Gregerson, one on a solo shot by Big Papi, whose bat looked a little slow to me. This knotted the game at four. After Josh Fields pitched a scoreless top of the ninth, the Good Guys took their cuts in the bottom of the ninth, trying to avoid free baseball. And avoid it they did! With one out, Jose Altuve parked one for the walkoff winner.
There was excitement in Astroland yesterday, with the acquisition of portsider Scott Kazmir. Kazmir makes his Astros debut in Kansas City tonight. Come check us out in the Game Zone, unless you’re a know-it-all sabermetric troll.