“Coop’s basically said I’ll play against lefties and come off the bench against righties,” Loretta said.
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That was awesome.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Astros 4
Baby Bears 0
W: Wolf (9-11) | L: Dempster (15-6)
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Wolf and Private Pyle broke out the whooping sticks on the Scrubs last night, going apeshit in the second shutout of the series sweep. Wolf dominated in his first complete game since 2004, punching out 8 against 2 walks, and sprinkling in just 6 hits allowed. Of his 128 pitches, 93 were of the strike variety.
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Rollercoaster ride at Wrigley
Astros 9, Cubs 7 in 11 innings
W: Wright (4-3) | L: Wood (4-3) | S: Valverde (39)
The road warrior Astros put another L on the frontrunning Cubs at their own crappy yard, finally achieving victory in 11 innings after a huge two-run bomb from Geoff Blum. Read More
Wade on,
September callups “I don’t view September as a reward situation,” he said. “If there’s a particular player that we feel we need to take a good, hard look at, there’s an opportunity to do that.”
Oswalt wins pitchers’ duel with… Jason Marquis?!?!
Astros at Cubs, 9/1/08
Astros 3, Cubs 0
W: Oswalt (13-9) L: Marquis (9-8) S: Valverde (38)
I love the fact that Roy swears he’s not doing anything differently. Sure, Roy… the drop of 2 runs in your ERA after the ASB is just a matter of balls falling in gloves.
Anyways, Roy was the Roy of old once again, dealing to the tune of 4 hits and no walks over 8 1/3 innings. Of course, 2 of those hits were in the ninth, leading to a save opportunity that was much more interesting that we thought it would be.
The offensive side of the ledger featured some great baserunning by the Puma, who tagged up and took second on a Blum sac fly that plated Tejada, which put him in place to steal third and trot home on Hunter’s single up the middle. Berkman also later went first to third on a wild pitch when Soto threw wildly trying to nail Miggy at the plate.
On the flip side, I’d like to issue a perssonal memo to Jose Castillo:
Breaking your bat on a 3-0 fastball from Samardzija – a guy who had just managed to walk Hunter Pence, for crying out loud – is not a good way to win a job for next year.