Game #1: Rodriguez (11-12, 3.71) vs Coleman (1-1, 5.76)Wandy gets the ball in the series opener, an afternoon event that doesn’t necessarily mean that the idiots in the bleachers won’t be already wasted and punchy. 2-1 of late, with a fabulous ERA of 1.35, the lefty has avoided his typical exaggerated home-road split this year. For proof, look no further than a record of 8-2 over his last 13 starts, home and road. For his career, he’s 5-4 in 15 starts against the Schlubs, sporting an ERA of 3.meh. He handles Fukudome well and only Errormiss really does any damage, still only at a paltry .241 clip (no dingers).Rookie righty Casey Coleman has 7 big league appearances to his name, 3 of which are starts. Both his decisions came as a starter, with a loss to the Padres followed up by a win against the Gnats with a 6.1, 3-hit, 1 run effort. He doesn’t walk many, but doesn’t strike out many either (Mr. Coleman, say hello to Mr. Pence), and is prone, therefore to throw a lot of pitches, relative to his innings pitched. Obviously, there’s no history in the bigs with him and the Astros.
Fuck the cubs!
well fuck
After two balls on the infield that should have been outs.
Yup. Very much unlike the revamped Astros.
Not knocking Lee, because his bat has really come around, but theres just no place for him on this team. I'm ready to see Wallace at first every day rather than this platoon
LF is a fine place for Lee.
Lead-off double that could've been a triple, a no-out bunt, out at home by a mile on a FC grounder and a whiff. Who are these guys?
BTW...Shiner Oktoberfest is here. Having a few today.
They have it on tap at Griff's.
HoSS tomorrow night?
Assuming I accomplish what I need to do at the office today instead of just following the game in the GZ, then presumably I'll still be employed and thus won't be able to make it tomorrow.
So, it's on if you get fired. Cool.Or Wednesday?
Castro is looking like horseshit behind the plate today.
Wandy crossed him up there.
I know, but he still had his glove in the right place and he was looking at the ball and missed it anyway.
Cause Wandy crossed him up. He was expecting a different pitch.
What I'm saying is that he reacted to being crossed up correctly but still missed it. He missed one earlier and has shown a tendency to stab at wide pitches instead of moving in front of them.
I don't think he reacted at all to being crossed up. He didn't even get his glove on it. The ball was by him before he realized what happened. When you're expecting a Wandy Rodriguez breaking ball and get his fastball, you're basically fucked.
I'll give you that one because I'm going on a cumulative judgement that he needs to pick it up defensively overall. He's got a good arm but his throws seem to me to be high lately, consistently. And it drives me nuts to see him stab at a pitch away that might skip by when runners are on. My experience at catcher was limited and I know yours wasn't, so maybe you have a better read on it. I'm just not as impressed as I was when he first came up.And when I typed this, Soto waved at a pitchout and missed it completely. But he didn't get booed. Fucking toolbags.
Terrible strike three call on Bogey, but his approach didn't seem to indicate anything promising to come anyways
HPU has been calling wide strikes away from him the whole game.
"Bogey" isnt going to work. We need something elseBB?
Goosey.
Ickey.
Vichy, because he's surrendered a lot today.
Time to make the Marmolade.
With that wind, just getting the ball in the air ought to do it.
Eminently winnable game slipping below the waves. Bugger.
That sucked. Bats went to sleep after starting so well. And what a shitty approach on those last two at-bats.
