Yippee! The Pirates are coming! The Pirates are coming!\u00a0 Just when you thought your Astros were the worst team since the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, the Buccos come to town sporting the worst batting average in the majors.\u00a0\u00a0The boys\u00a0have the chance to win a game other than on Wednesdays only; the Pirates have lost 19 of their last 21 on the road, plus have lost 14 of their last 17 at Minute Maid.\u00a0The 3 pitchers\u00a0the Astros are scheduled to face\u00a0have a combined total of only 3 wins on the season.\u00a0 We got ourselves a real chance at a series win here–remember, it ain’t soccer (futbol for you non-Star Spangled Banner types), someone has to win!<\/p>\n
Probable Pitchers<\/strong><\/p>\n Tuesday July 6, 7:05 p.m.<\/em>\u00a0 Brad Lincoln<\/a>\u00a0vs Wandy Rodriguez<\/a>\u00a0 Lincoln earned his first major league win in his last start.\u00a0 Scouting reports say that when his curve is on, he is one tough mf to hit, but when he is off, he is off bad.\u00a0\u00a0Lincoln has\u00a0one major thing on his side, he has never faced a Houston batter, which gives the hometown lineup about a 5.3% chance of scoring a run against him.\u00a0 Wandy\u00a0returns after facing the Brew Crew, pitching seven innings and giving up only one run.\u00a0 He laid down a wonderful suicide squeeze in that game, too.\u00a0 Rodriguez had a win earlier over the Pirates this year at home, in fact, he has never lost at home against them in his career-the current combined Pirates lineup has a .179 BA against Wandy.<\/p>\n Wednesday, July 7, 7:05 p.m.<\/em> Daniel McCutchen<\/a>\u00a0vs. Brian Moehler<\/a>\u00a0 McCutchen also got his first win of the year in his last start (see a pattern here?).\u00a0 He is the replacement for Zach Duke who is on the DL, and has only faced the Astros in relief.\u00a0 Moehler should have gotten his second, but the bully gave up the ghost to the Padres and spoiled Moehler’s bid.\u00a0<\/p>\n Thursday, July 8, 1:05 p.m.<\/em> The Dork<\/a>\u00a0vs. The Whiner<\/a>\u00a0 Ohlendork–you guessed it, got his first win of the year in his last start.\u00a0 He has also never won at the MMPUS.\u00a0 Oswalt\u00a0 will\u00a0be Oswalt\u00a0until he doesn’t get a strike call that he wants, and will transform into the whiny\u00a0bitch we have all come to despise.\u00a0<\/p>\n Injuries<\/strong><\/p>\n Astros-<\/strong>Blum, the Ino Brothers, Manzella and Arias are playing poker in Vegas.<\/p>\n Pirates-<\/strong>Duke (elbow), Pearce (ankle), Ascaino (shoulder),\u00a0 Jabuwhatshisname (hurt his brain trying to spell his name correctly) will miss this series.<\/p>\n What should we bribe them with to get them to come to this dismal series?<\/strong><\/p>\n Nothing.\u00a0 No bribes.\u00a0 No giveaways.\u00a0 No bobbleheads.\u00a0 No towels.\u00a0 Nada.\u00a0 Just some ticket specials.\u00a0 Like that will draw in the big crowds.<\/p>\n Expect the worse, hope for the best<\/strong><\/p>\n The 2010 Astros, we’re still<\/span><\/em> working on it.<\/p>\n Yippee! The Pirates are coming! The Pirates are coming!\u00a0 Just when you thought your Astros were the worst team since the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, the Buccos come to town sporting the worst batting average in the majors.\u00a0\u00a0The boys\u00a0have the chance to win a game other than on Wednesdays only; the Pirates have lost 19 of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"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\/7496"}],"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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7496"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7519,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions\/7519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}*Apologies for the late preview.\u00a0 Life got in the way.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"