Thursday, September 9, 2010

Dojers 2
Astros 3

W: Norris | L: Lilly | S: Lyon

HR: Johnson (8 – they’re still looking for it)

The youth movement chugs right along and continues to excite the shit out of those who care to pay attention. I admit, I care but my attention has been spread thin over the past month with many other things that have usurped my Astros viewing. I did happen to see most of last night’s contest and stared intently at the 6th inning at-bat of Chris Johnson.

CJ’s throwing error in the 1st preceded the bomb that Bud Norris gave up to Ethier. Down 2 and with Pence and Lee on, CJ battled the extremely hateable Lilly for 8 pitches until he connected with a wheelhouse fastball that sailed way over the tracks in left. CJ put his head down, tossed the bat aside and briskly trotted around the freshly cleared bases.

Those 3 runs held up, past some sketchy work by the bullpen and a nifty running grab by Boojwah in left (would Lee have even tried?) for the last out. Norris’ 6 innings yielded just 3 hits and 1 ER, plus 7 Ks to best Lilly and the Dojers in game 1 of 4 with these pukes. JA “Don’t call me Jay-Ay” Happ leads the youngsters and Lee in game 2 tonight at 7:05 CDT. Go kick the shit out of ’em, boys!

Astros 4, Cubs 0
W: Brett Myers, L: Randy Wells

Astros Recap
Game Zone

This game started out perfect. Myers pitched 4.2 innings of perfect baseball. Then he gave up a walk, then a single before closing out the inning to keep the Cubs scoreless. He ended the night with 7 innings of shut-out baseball. He did a great job of using the strike zome given to him by the home plate ump. There were some pretty good plays made in the field behind him.

The bullpen finished the game by tossing two scoreless innings.

Hunter Pence hit a solo homerun in his second at-bat, his first at-bat was a pretty good shot to center also.

Carlos Lee looked like he was ready to trade in his bat for a new one. Good swings but only outs to show for it.

Keppinger, Johnson and Quintero got the other 3 rbi’s on the night.

This was the 5th series the Astros have played against the Cubs and the 5th series they won. That is the way it should be.

I found this quote from Hunter Pence interesting.

“We’re having fun out there and we compete and believe in each other.”

I believe in them too.

Cards 2, Astros 5
W: Nelson Figueroa, L: Jeff Suppan
H: Fernando Abad, S: Brandon Lyon

Astros Recap
Game Zone

Pence’s 3-run homerun gave the Astros the lead over the Cardinals gave them a 3-game win streak has now put them in 3rd place in the NL Central.

3 Astros players got RBIs.

The Astros won all 3 games against the Cardinals by 3 runs.

3 Astros players (Bourn, Pence and Johnson) had at least 1 hit in each of the 3 games.

The Astros have won 3 of the 5 series against the Cardinals this season.

Can you believe Brett Wallace has been hit by 7 pitches already?

Fun times in Houston, Texas right now.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Astros 5
Phillies 1

Thursday, August 19th, Astros 3, Mets 2 Game Zone

Friday, August 20th, Astros 0, Marlins 9 Game Zone

Saturday, August 21st, Astros 3, Marlins 6 Game Zone

Sunday, August 22nd, Astros 2, Marlins1 Game Zone

Monday, August 23rd, Astros 3, Phillies 2 Game Zone

Tuesday, August 24th, Astros 4, Phillies 2 Game Zone

Wednesday, August 25th, Astros 3, Phillies 2 Game Zone

The Astros started the week off good with a win over the Mets, but scuffled a bit against the Marlins. The fun has been the Phillies series. The Phillies are a good team, at least I think they are but they have had some problems with the new-look Astros. Brett Myers and J.A. Happ have done well against their former team. As have Michael “Sweet Baby” Bourn and Jason Michaels.

This team is fun to watch. They don’t know that they aren’t suppose to run hard on every play that seems like it will be an out. They don’t know that they have no chance to get an out against one of the better hitters in the league.

So, everyone should continue to watch them.