Whataburger Fancy Ketchup is not as good as Heinz ketchup.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\nAlso:<\/span><\/p>\nThe Astros will not lose another series to the Rangers this season.<\/span><\/p>\nCall it clarity, gas, what have you, but I felt a sense of calm in the aftermath of the last sweep. \u00a0Maybe we\u2019ve been in the eye of the hurricane these last two weeks and shit is about to go sideways again\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n…or maybe not.<\/span><\/p>\nOn paper, the pitching matchups in this series don\u2019t look good.<\/span><\/p>\nOn the field, fuck the Rangers.<\/span><\/p>\nMonday, June 6 – 7:05pm CDT
\n<\/b>Mike Fiers (3-3, 4.84) vs. Colby Lewis (5-0, 3.09)<\/b><\/p>\n
Despite giving up just two runs over seven innings, Fiers was on the receiving end of one of those 2-1 losses the Astros suffered at the hands of the Rangers in May. \u00a0He\u2019s coming off a very nice outing against the D\u2019Backs: six innings, one run, 7 K\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\nLewis shut down the Astros for seven innings a couple weeks ago, and his most recent game was another six-inning shutout affair against the Indians. \u00a0In between, though, he got rocked by the Angels for six runs in five innings\u2026 and still got the win. \u00a0Fuckers.<\/span><\/p>\nTuesday, June 7 – 7:05pm CDT
\n<\/b>Dallas Keuchel (3-7, 5.50) vs. Cole Hamels (5-1, 3.39)<\/b><\/p>\n
We\u2019d have to break out a microscope to look for positives in Keuchel\u2019s starts against the Rangers this year. \u00a022 hits and 13 runs in 12 innings is just plain awful.<\/span><\/p>\nHamels has punked Houston twice this year, and last time had the benefit of what might as well have been a 47-run lead as he cruised for eight innings and racked up about 30 strikeouts. \u00a0Since then the Pirates beat him up for six runs (five earned) in 4.2 innings, and he gave up three runs over seven innings in a loss to the Indians.<\/span><\/p>\nWednesday, June 8 – 7:05pm CDT
\n<\/b>Doug Fister (5-3, 3.51) vs. Yu Darvish (2-0, 3.38)<\/b><\/p>\n
The Astros have won seven straight games that Fister has started. \u00a0Cool story, bro.<\/span><\/p>\nDarvish came off the DL right after the Rangers\u2019 last series with the Astros, and his starts have been good, if brief. \u00a0The team has been careful with him to not throw too many pitches, resulting in games against the Pirates and Mariners with 5 and 5.2 IP, respectively, with no more than three runs allowed.<\/span><\/p>\nThursday, June 9 – 1:05pm CDT
\n<\/b>Collin McHugh (5-4, 4.97) vs. Martin Perez (4-4, 3.24)<\/b><\/p>\n
If this matchup were Craigslist then McHugh and Perez would be posting on Missed Connections. \u00a0Neither pitcher has pitched in the season series yet this year.<\/span><\/p>\nMcHugh left Saturday\u2019s game against the A\u2019s in the 6th inning with the Astros ahead 5-4, before a blown save robbed him of a W. \u00a0Although the Rangers didn\u2019t have much trouble with McHugh in 2015 (4.43 ERA, .344 opposing average), McHugh was still 3-0 against them in four games.<\/span><\/p>\nPerez has won three straight starts thanks to some good pitching and healthy run support. \u00a0Almost the opposite of McHugh, the Astros didn\u2019t score many runs off Perez in 2015 (2.00 ERA in three starts), but they did hit him well (.324 opposing average) and he was only 1-2 against Houston.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SERIES PREVIEW Astros @ Rangers June 6-9, 2016 A potent case of writer\u2019s block will prevent me from being any more creative with this preview, but maybe that\u2019s not absolutely necessary. \u00a0After all, just a healthy dose of \u201cfuck the Rangers\u201d would be enough to pacify the locals. No, today, I\u2019ll simply be making a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13151,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13150\/revisions\/13151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}