Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Astros 2
Brewers 5
W: Parra (10-6) | L: Rodriguez (7-6) | S: Torres (24)
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The Good Guys pooped out a series loss to the Brewers today, putting the magic closing record at 26-9 to finish at Coop’s prescribed 90 wins. The L gets hung on Wandy, who pitched sort-of-kind-of-OK, giving up 3 in five and a third innings of work.
This man would like to remind you that only two of those runs were earned.
Astros 5, Brewers 2
W: Brian Moehler, L: Ben Sheets
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Thanks to the abundance of runners left on base by Milwaukee early in the game, Brian Moehler was able to last 5.1 innings to get the win, while Ben Sheets has one bad inning where the Astros didn’t leave many men on base.
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Astros at Brewers, 8/18/08
Brewers 9, Astros 3
W: Sabathia (14-8) L: Wolf (8-11)
HR:Abercrombie (2), Wigginton (16)
The Good:
The Astros got 3 runs off previously untouchable CC Sabathia.
Abercrombie showed what happens when he actually makes contact.
Private Pyle moved to .458/.469/.932 in August, and his dong to CF made a satisfying “clang” off the batter’s eye.
The Bad:
Brocail, Wright, and Geary all surrendered insurance runs.
The Ugly:
Randy Wolf surrendered 6 runs in 4 innings, all coming with 2 outs. The major damage came from a 5-run 4th inning, when it looked like Wolf had wiled his way out of a 1st and 2nd, nobody out jam. Unfortunately, his intentional walk to Jason Kendall backfired when Sabathia, as Coach put it, “guess right on the first pitch”, resulting in a 2-run single to LF, where Private Pyle was ill-equipped to gun down the runner at the plate.
Can: open. Worms: everywhere.
Durham and Jardy followed with 2 more hits to bring the score to 6-0, effectively ending the game.
Roy looked into the Arizona dugout and didn’t see Babe Ruth, so he came out and threw strikes.
Diamondbacks 12, Astros 2
W: Brandon Webb, L: Wandy Rodriguez
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Got to be honest, I was watching the Olympics. Read More
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Giants 4
Astros 7
W: Hawkins (2-1) | L: Yabu (3-5) | S: Valverde (30)
Yes, it’s the Giants. Yes the Giants are 20 games under .500 and yes, it was at home but DAMN! Back-to-back 4-game sweeps is something to be just a little bit excited about. And I honestly don’t mean “WOW! Look out Wild Card!!!” As an Astros fan, I love to see this team win and they’ve been doing that a lot lately, despite being bitten in the ass by injuries to key players.Read More
