So does giving up my tickets to the game because I have to work all night count as a proper sacrifice to add a few marbles into the Astros' side of the BBG's karma scale?
Q is out cold
Blum's heart rate is up. 8 more innings as the backup.
If Q has a concussion this could be a mess.
If Q has a concussion, I think Spack should track down Jose Cruz III and conk him on the head with a bat.
Hope Q doesn't have a concussion. Astros' medical stuff is likely to treat him for back acne.
Q with a mild concussion - being taken to Methodist Hospital
Hey, who let Road Wandy out of the locker room?
that's, what, III astrosin the last II days?
I bet you Jose Cruz III still doesn't *get* it.
Let's hope that the III injuries is the BBGs little joke and that they're now finished with us.
Nice comeback for the hometown 9.
Heard Q's injury on the radio and tried to access the video on Astros.com, but it has been removed. Was it on the front or back swing?
Back swing on an inside pitch. He was moving inside on the RH batter, hit him right on the top of his head. Went down immediately and didn't move.
I liked that All-Star game commercial the first couple of times I saw it, but the last 400 have been torture.
Maza needs to get drilled.
Damn I'm slow tonight...ETA: I know it's hard to do, but lay off the hanging curve here Ms. Doe...
See PENCE!!!, slider.
Maza knew he'd popped Q pretty good, as he turned around and looked at Q for a number of steps as he was running to 1B on the play.
Damn I'm slow tonight...
Ah crap, Loretta was Spazzed.
Well, bleep, that was some collision. Please, BBB's, we have repented. Have mercy on us.
Spaz is going to kill somebody one of these days.
I think Brownie and JD are missing the critical point: Blum is the emergency catcher. If Coop pinch hits him here, he's pretty exposed for extra innings.
Who will go in for Loretta? Newhan was used.
Is he for sure coming out?
We don't know nuthin.
why the hell are jeter and ARod wearing suits in that All-Star ad?
I know one thing, I do not like only 5 men on the bench. What happened to 10 man pitching staffs? Have a couple of rubber armed long men.
Because Jeter is already on the side of the building in uniform.
What is he, a Barbie?
Just saw the note that Berkman has never had a walkoff hit. Find that hard to believe (but as I think about it, can't remember one...).
You modified that last sentence just in time.
Free baseball! Courtesy your home town nine's offense, defense and bullpen. Nice job climbing back into this one no matter how it turns out.
When is the last time we have seen an Astro pitcher have to play a position?
When is the last time we have seen an Astro pitcher have to play a position? I'm voting for Backe if it comes to that.
You're asking us, O Sage of Trivial Astros Facts?
Sampson would be a good possibility.
Forgot about him. Good choice. I was thinking starters only.
Man, I love Wesley. What an amazing contributer to this team.
Which'd be the better choice, as you'd want your relievers available to pitch.
Scott Elarton, 1999.http://www.baseball-reference.com/e/elartsc01.shtml
I've seen a pitcher switch between pitching and a position in the same inning. Been a few years. Like 30+
Miggy seems lost.
Ah, I overlooked him. Nice job.
Didn't the Mets do that in the '86 LCS, maybe with McDowell and Sid Fernandez or Franco or somebody?
So this will be Wright's last outing for three days, I guess.
He gets sent out seemingly every day. Every fourth one seems shaky (not a scientific observation).
Damn you, Jeff Kent!
Was this the fourth?
I blame JaneDoe title. It was destiny.
I blame JaneDoe's title. It was destiny.
I seem to remember that was during a regular season game.ETA: you found it.
Tonight is the third night in a row.
I was just waiting for someone to say that. Shoulda known it would be you.
So sad and true.
I still can't find the game where it happened.
I found it here. It was the Dierker seizure game, played 6 weeks later in the completion of the suspended game. He never actually played CF that day, according to the PBP.
And Lima at 3B?
Same thing, inserted in the lineup but never played 3B.
Yeah, I got that, but I can't believe that anyone here would have forgotten that. I mean the roar of laughter from the crowd when he ran out to 3B had to be deafening.
They never actually went out there, as far as I know. The game resumed with one out in the 8th, just after Bagwell struck out (6 weeks before). They were listed at those positions when the Astros were batting.
Does that have something to do with certain guys (from June 13) no longer being on the active roster? Otherwise I don't understand why they would appear in the batting order at all.
