Wandy started well. In the first inning he established the fast ball in, even to the point of figuring out that home plate ump Tim Welke was going to call the “corners”; the corners plus about a half a foot. He was able to accordian the fastball in and out and had good control of the curve, until the 7th. We’ll get to that later.
Cardinals 1, Astros 6
W: Brian Moehler, L: Braden Looper
Astros Recap
Yahoo Recap
Boxscore
Tonight was a night that started out with “What’s” and ended with “What’s.” After a 2-7 road trip you knew the Astros would try and mix things up a little bit. The announcing of the lineup was the first sign of things were not the same and change was in the air. Little did we know how much exactly.Read More
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Astros 3
‘roots 4
W: Maholm (4-5) | L: Backe (4-7) | S: Capps (13)
Right up front, I didn’t see but about 5 minutes of this game. The 5 minutes I saw though, were the deciding moments of the contest. Backe, who had been cruising since a shaky, 3-run 1st, gave up a deep fly ball to center to Jason Bay with the game tied, a man on first and 2 out in the 5th.Read More
Astros at Pirates, 6/4/08
Pirates 5, Astros 2
W: Duke (3-4) L: Oswalt (4-6) S: Capps (12)
HR: Pvt. Wigginton (3)
AP recap
Footer
Two who can say it better than I – the lovely Ms. Footer:
Call this loss uninspired. … The few who took in the Astros-Pirates game watched the home team prevail, 5-2, thanks to timely hitting aided by a sluggish Houston defense that could have prevented at least two runs with a tiny bit more effort.
And pravata:
Lee hestitates on a liner to left and it drops, Matsui misplays a one hopper, Tejada lets a grounder bounce off his glove, the dumbass rundown, wild pitch, no one can hit the ball with runners on. Hose down day at the monkey cage.
And sad to say, the defensive “effort” might be secondary to the fact that Roy still looks nothing like Roy Oswalt, Pitching Ace.
I leave you with these thoughts:
Roy Oswalt, 2008: 5.38 ERA, 1.46 WHIP, 16 HR/82 IP
Woody Williams, 2007: 5.27 ERA, 1.43 WHIP, 35 HR/188 IP
Astros 2, Pirates 0
W: Wandy (2-1) | L: Dumatrait (2-3) | S: Valverde (16)
Wandy shut down the Pyroots at PNC, breaking a 5 game team skid as he was backed by good D and just enough offense to take the first game of the series in a 2-0 combined whitewash. Read More
Mark Loretta staked the team to a one run lead with a solo homer in the first. However Shawn Chacon coughed it up immediately, losing his cool when he didn’t get an out call on a pickoff attempt for the 3rd out in the 1st.
