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Title: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on March 29, 2018, 11:09:40 am
•Astros vs. Rangers, 2:35 p.m. CT

Starting Pitchers

Astros SP: Justin Verlander, RHP
Rangers SP: Cole Hamels, LHP

Astros lineup

1. George Springer, RF
2. Alex Bregman, 3B
3. Jose Altuve, 2B
4. Carlos Correa, SS
5. Marwin Gonzalez, 1B
6. Josh Reddick, LF
7. Evan Gattis, DH
8. Jake Marisnick, CF
9. Brian McCann, C


Rangers lineup

1. Delino DeShields, CF
2. Joey Gallo, 1B
3. Elvis Andrus, SS
4. Adrian Beltre, 3B
5. Nomar Mazara, RF
6. Shin-Soo Choo, DH
7. Robinson Chirinos, C
8. Rougned Odor, 2B
9. Ryan Rua, LF
Title: Re: Opening Day March 3, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: geezerdonk on March 29, 2018, 11:18:54 am
James?
Title: Re: Opening Day March 3, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on March 29, 2018, 11:20:21 am
James?
I fixed it.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 3, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: HudsonHawk on March 29, 2018, 12:13:54 pm
Also, today is March 29th. 
Title: Re: Opening Day March 3, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: MRaup on March 29, 2018, 12:22:24 pm
Also, today is March 29th.

#FAKENEWS
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: OregonStrosFan on March 29, 2018, 02:30:24 pm
Happy Opening Day!
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Waldo on March 29, 2018, 02:32:50 pm
Anyone else trying to do the in-market live stream and getting "No content available for this game"?
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Fredia on March 29, 2018, 02:40:39 pm
watching on espn and glad to get an Astros game in Austin. 
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Ty in Tampa on March 29, 2018, 02:41:53 pm
YEAAAAH!!!! SPRINGER DINGER to start the festivities!!!
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Waldo on March 29, 2018, 02:42:02 pm
Springer leads off with a bomb!
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Craig on March 29, 2018, 02:42:25 pm
Well then
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Waldo on March 29, 2018, 02:43:39 pm
Bregman doubles to left.  Vaunting has begun already.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Jacksonian on March 29, 2018, 02:44:51 pm
Bregman doubles to left.  Vaunting has begun already.

Let's not get too cocky.  Yet.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Waldo on March 29, 2018, 02:49:36 pm
Let's not get too cocky.  Yet.

Fair enough.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Waldo on March 29, 2018, 02:54:00 pm
4-outfielder success rate: 100%
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Craig on March 29, 2018, 02:57:42 pm
4-outfielder success rate: 100%

Fly out to Bregfield.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Waldo on March 29, 2018, 03:23:37 pm
Bases juiced with no outs for Altuve.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 3, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Aussie Astro on March 29, 2018, 03:25:59 pm
Also, today is March 29th.
Or 30th, take your pick.

So. what I miss?
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Knoxbanedoodle on March 29, 2018, 03:32:43 pm
Marwin off to a crumby start: 0-2 with a K, GIDP and 3 lobsters.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Texifornia on March 29, 2018, 03:40:18 pm
Verlander picks off the Stink at first,
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: LonghornCDR on March 29, 2018, 03:41:41 pm
Odor is such a freakin clown.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Aussie Astro on March 29, 2018, 03:43:00 pm
Fuck off stinky.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Astros Fan in Big D on March 29, 2018, 03:43:14 pm
Verlander picks off the Stink at first,

Loved the demonstrative 'no, no challenge it motion" followed by the out by a mile replay.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Aussie Astro on March 29, 2018, 03:47:16 pm
Jake, Jake , Jake, Jake!
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: moriartp on March 29, 2018, 03:47:31 pm
MARISnick puts the Astros up 3-0.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Ty in Tampa on March 29, 2018, 03:47:42 pm
JAKE!!
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: LonghornCDR on March 29, 2018, 03:47:51 pm
Crazy power from big Jake. 
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: moriartp on March 29, 2018, 03:48:20 pm
Loved the demonstrative 'no, no challenge it motion" followed by the out by a mile replay.

That was freakin' great.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: chuck on March 29, 2018, 03:49:52 pm
Jake making an early claim on being the everyday center fielder!
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on March 29, 2018, 03:57:16 pm
Those vendors sure have bright yellow shirts on.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Knoxbanedoodle on March 29, 2018, 04:00:27 pm
Stingy little strike zone. Who’s this ump?
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: LonghornCDR on March 29, 2018, 04:06:02 pm
My general impression is that Verlander doesn’t look particularly sharp today, but he’s thrown 53 pitches and given up 2 hits in four scoreless.  What an amazing pitcher. 
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Waldo on March 29, 2018, 04:06:58 pm
My general impression is that Verlander doesn’t look particularly sharp today, but he’s thrown 53 pitches and given up 2 hits in four scoreless.  What an amazing pitcher.

Defensive help is nice too.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: LonghornCDR on March 29, 2018, 04:09:28 pm
Mike Fiers
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Knoxbanedoodle on March 29, 2018, 04:20:39 pm
Mike Fiers

Too soon.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: MRaup on March 29, 2018, 04:21:32 pm
Stingy little strike zone. Who’s this ump?

Jerry Meals. He's... not great.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Texifornia on March 29, 2018, 04:23:57 pm
I'm glad the Astros can get some of their games in "The Oven" before it really warms up later in the season.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Knoxbanedoodle on March 29, 2018, 04:24:25 pm
Joey Gallo looks like an orangutan. His broad flanges indicate virility.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: LonghornCDR on March 29, 2018, 04:40:17 pm
I literally love  Justin Verlander. 
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Knoxbanedoodle on March 29, 2018, 04:41:01 pm
Helluva job by JV.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: LonghornCDR on March 29, 2018, 04:44:32 pm
Helluva job by JV.
Yes it was.   Toughest part of the lineup and he just gutted through it.   Last pitch of the day hit 96.  Wow. 
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Knoxbanedoodle on March 29, 2018, 04:58:19 pm
Devo nails so far! Choo pops out to short and the next two guys K.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: LonghornCDR on March 29, 2018, 04:58:44 pm
Utterly satisfying to watch Odor flail at the COD.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Astros Fan in Big D on March 29, 2018, 05:08:39 pm
Correa deep to the gap,  Altuve first to home.

Seems familiar.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: David in Jackson on March 29, 2018, 05:08:39 pm
Reddick in postseason form.


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Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: MRaup on March 29, 2018, 05:11:20 pm
Meals is a shitty, shitty umpire.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Texifornia on March 29, 2018, 05:11:35 pm
The strike zone really expanded on Gattis.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Knoxbanedoodle on March 29, 2018, 05:11:51 pm
Meals is an asshole.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Astros Fan in Big D on March 29, 2018, 05:22:09 pm
Meals is a shitty, shitty umpire.

FTR broadcast interviewed Manfred and brought up automated balls/strikes.  He shot it down pretty quickly.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Astros Fan in Big D on March 29, 2018, 05:25:31 pm
 Right on cue,  HPU makes the case for automated balls/ strikes.

Ridiculous called strike 3.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: MRaup on March 29, 2018, 05:25:47 pm
Meals' strikezone was a postage stamp through 5, and now he's calling pitches 6 inches off the corner. Fucking scrub.



Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Knoxbanedoodle on March 29, 2018, 05:33:05 pm
Until it’s a stamp again for Andrus.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Texifornia on March 29, 2018, 05:33:34 pm
The fact that so few umpires seem to be able to maintain a consistent strike zone throughout the same game, let alone multiple umpires over many games, makes me want an automated strike zone.

However, I wonder what the true implications of an absolutely consistent strike zone would be. My guess is that it would be good for offense.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Ty in Tampa on March 29, 2018, 05:36:36 pm
Giles is going to be maddening.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Jacksonian on March 29, 2018, 05:37:56 pm
Giles is going to be maddening.

Again
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: moriartp on March 29, 2018, 05:38:09 pm
Fuckin' hell, Kenny.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Astros Fan in Big D on March 29, 2018, 05:38:21 pm
Giles is going to be maddening.

Yep.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Texifornia on March 29, 2018, 05:38:53 pm
Giles is going to be maddening.
Same as it ever was...
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: The Third Man on March 29, 2018, 05:40:12 pm
Great job, Astros!
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Ty in Tampa on March 29, 2018, 05:41:12 pm
1-0!!
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Aussie Astro on March 29, 2018, 05:41:33 pm
Nice to start with a win.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Astros Fan in Big D on March 29, 2018, 05:41:39 pm
Acceptable start to the season.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on March 29, 2018, 05:52:27 pm
Man, I'm so glad they didn't lose.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: JimR on March 29, 2018, 08:37:01 pm
Reddick in postseason form.


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First gratuitously shitty comment of the season. Congrats.

Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: NeilT on March 29, 2018, 11:13:36 pm
First gratuitously shitty comment of the season. Congrats.

Should have saved it for Giles.
Title: Re: Opening Day March 29, 2018 Astros at Rangers
Post by: WVastro on March 29, 2018, 11:33:43 pm
That was a fun win and felt very 2017. Can’t wait for tomorrow!