Game 2

[Bench]

Correa called out on a replay after he stole second but was tagged by a millimeter for a millisecond sliding past the bag before getting his hand down.  I think that is the most annoying usage of replay, right up there with the elimination of the neighborhood/vicinity call during double plays. 

[Bench]

It's 0-0 in the bottom of the second.  The Astros have one hit and the A's have two.

[Bench]

Yuli is playing first base.

[Lefty]

Correa called out on a replay after he stole second but was tagged by a millimeter for a millisecond sliding past the bag before getting his hand down.  I think that is the most annoying usage of replay, right up there with the elimination of the neighborhood/vicinity call during double plays. 

Could not agree more, seems like I haven't noticed it as much as last year, though.

Peacock looking good early.

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

OU and Ohio State tied 2-2 at the half.

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

Bregman leads off the 4th with a single
Altuve FO to LF
Correa grounds into 5-4-3

[Lefty]

OU and Ohio State tied 2-2 at the half.

3-3.  Not a sloppy game at all, both teams have been playing some serious defense.

[juliogotay]

3-3.  Not a sloppy game at all, both teams have been playing some serious defense.

there are at least four good college games on now.

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

Peacock with 6 strikeouts in a row. gets the first two on Ks, then the next guy FO to CF

No score after 4

[juliogotay]

Correa called out on a replay after he stole second but was tagged by a millimeter for a millisecond sliding past the bag before getting his hand down.  I think that is the most annoying usage of replay, right up there with the elimination of the neighborhood/vicinity call during double plays.

Yes, I'm a little tired of the ticky-tacky call on the bases. If the human eye can't see it let it stand.

[hostros7]

Correa called out on a replay after he stole second but was tagged by a millimeter for a millisecond sliding past the bag before getting his hand down.  I think that is the most annoying usage of replay, right up there with the elimination of the neighborhood/vicinity call during double plays.

I hate that shit. I thought the MLB was planning to adjust the rule. If you beat the throw, the only way you should be ruled out is if you slide completely past the bag and the tag is maintained. The replay request to squint to see daylight is its worst usage.


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[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

That is a huge glove on the Astro fan in the crowd

[juliogotay]

so 14 innings today so far in the Mausoleum and one Houston run.

[Bench]

That is a huge glove on the Astro fan in the crowd

The biggest glove I have ever seen.

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

Beltran got a single but the two guys that batted before him and the dude that batted after him made outs.

[Lefty]

I hate that shit. I thought the MLB was planning to adjust the rule. If you beat the throw, the only way you should be ruled out is if you slide completely past the bag and the tag is maintained. The replay request to squint to see daylight is its worst usage.


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What pissed me off the most was on the popup slide, when the guy was safe by a mile, but fielder puts the glove on his leg and for a split second, at the end of the pop, he comes off the bag.

[Bench]

Peacock is looking good.  He needs to keep it up for a couple more innings and the ASTROS NEED TO SCORE SOME FUCKING RUNS

[Bench]

Kemp promptly pops the second pitch foul to right which is hauled in at the railing. 

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

Peacock needs some run support.

[Bench]

Maybin chops it to third and nearly beats out the high throw.  I think he was safe but there's no review.

[Bench]

Bregman works a walk.  No score, one on, two out.  Top 6th, Altuve up.

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

Jose Altuve!!!!

[Bench]

ALTUVE BOMB!!!!!!!!!

2-0 good guys!

[Bench]

Jose Altuve!!!!

Just what the doctor ordered!

[Bench]

Correa with a gapper gloved but dropped by the center fielder.  He then bowls over the second baseman fighting his way into the bag. 

[Bench]

Correa on second, Reddick up.  Two outs. Astros leading 2-0 in the top of the 6th.

[Aussie Astro]

Correa with a gapper gloved but dropped by the center fielder.  He then bowls over the second baseman fighting his way into the bag.

That was funny... get the fuck outta my way!

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

Correa with a gapper gloved but dropped by the center fielder.  He then bowls over the second baseman fighting his way into the bag.

Tough error on the CF

[Bench]

Reddick grounds one softly into no-mans land between second and first.  The second baseman gloves it a few feet into the outfield grass and throws it home but the catcher can't bring it in and Correa scores from second. 

[Bench]

Yuli pops out to center but the Astros finally put up a crooked number.

3-0 Astros, mid 6th.  Come on Peacock.  KEEP IT GOING!

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

Reddick grounds one softly into no-mans land between second and first.  The second baseman gloves it a few feet into the outfield grass and throws it home but the catcher can't bring it in and Correa scores from second.

That was either a good bad send or a bad good send by Pettis.

[Bench]

That was funny... get the fuck outta my way!

And insult to injury was scoring on Reddick's hit.  He had no business scoring there.  Chalk another up for Gary Pettis. 

[Bench]

That was either a good bad send or a bad good send by Pettis.

Trust the results, not the process on that one. 

[Bench]

Bottom 6th, 3-0 good guys.

Powell singles sharply through the left side.  Kemp playing way over on the line cuts it off and holds him to a single.

[Bench]

Cue ball up the middle, Altuve backhands and throws but the ump calls the runner safe.  Being reviewed. 

He was out.

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

Looked out on the real time. Replay confirms.

[Bench]

Replay confirms the out.  Great play by Altuve!

One out.  Boog on second.  Healy up.

[Bench]

Healy bounces one to Correa and the runner was moving. Correa easily guns the lead runner out at third.

Two out, Healy on first.  A couple of nice plays in the infield. 

[hostros7]

Well, fuck


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[Bench]

Peacock hangs one that is utterly demolished.  Olson hit every living fuck out of that ball.

A's cut it to 3-2.  That's it for Peacock.  Musgrove coming in with two out in the bottom of the 6th. 

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

Matt Olson is a pretty big boy. I'm impressed with some of the A's young talent. Chapman, Healey...

[Bench]

Matt Olson is a pretty big boy. I'm impressed with some of the A's young talent. Chapman, Healey...

Powell too.

[Bench]

Musgrove's first pitch is drilled to the right center gap just past Reddick.  Chapman with the double.

Maxwell up. 

[Bench]

Maxwell takes the first pitch but Musgrove gets a high breaking ball to fall in the zone for a looking strike.  Next pitch is a 93 MPH fastball over the outside corner.  Maxwell fights off an outside fastball coming in at 95 MPH.   Next pitch is smoked to the wall in center for an RBI double.

Tie ballgame.  Fuck fuck fuck.

[Bench]

Canha strikes out.  Things seem bleak, but it's still a tie ballgame. 

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

Well, Peacock pitched a hell of a game.

[Bench]

3-3 after 6.  Bottom of the order due up for the good guys

[Bench]

Well, Peacock pitch a hell of a game.

He deserved better.  One meatball made the difference. 

[The Third Man]

That have failed every test this series against a team 20 games below .500. Time to step up, boys.

[Bench]

Top 7, tied at 3.  Beltran bounces one down the line past the third baseman that rolls all the way to the corner.  Beltran jogs into second for a leadoff double, his 563rd which is good for 26th all-time.

McCann up.

[Bench]

The lefty, Moll, is pitching for the A's.  McCann cues one to short where nobody is.  Infield single, Beltran to third. 

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

On the corners with no outs

[Bench]

A's bringing in a righty, Chris Hatcher.  Kemp is due up. I don't expect Hinch to pinch hit for him.

[Bench]

Springer is the pinch hitter.  Infield in. 

[Bench]

Springer sends it to right center field, and the Astros take the lead on the sac fly.  Great job GEORGE.

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

See if it'll hold up.

[Bench]

Maybin up, one out runner still on first.  He pops up to center.  Nothing doing.

Two down.  Bregman up.

[Bench]

Bregman grounds out 6-4 to end the inning.

Devenski coming in, hopefully for two innings of shutout ball. 

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

A&M survives Nicholls 24-14

[Bench]

The new outfield alignment is Reddick-Maybin-Springer. 

Joey Wendle steps in.  Devo gets on over and the next pitch is in the dirt.  Third pitch popped up HIGH in the infield, eventually caught by Altuve a few steps into the infield grass.  Altuve didn't see it until he saw it.  Yuli was waiting the whole time and then got called off.

[Bench]

A&M survives Nicholls 24-14

Time for the COOGS!

[Bench]

Barreto triples down the right field line.  Tying run on third, one out.  Boog up.

[chuck]

My grandfather used to wear a hat just like that guy's.

[Lefty]

The Land Thieves have turned it on and decided to just kick the hell out of The Ohio State.

[Bench]

Devo gets a change up over for a strike on the outside corner.  Misses with the next one.  Misses low and in with some more soft stuff.  Boog flies one to center that is certainly deep enough.  Tie game.  Fuck again.

Two outs, bases cleared.  Tie game.

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

shitfuck god damn

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

Son of a bitch! DEVO?!?!?!?!?

[Bench]

And Oakland now leads the game after a solo homerun. 

[hostros7]

This series spirals closer to the inner circles of hell.


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[The Third Man]

This is fucking horrible. What a disgrace. Utter shit.

[doyce7]

Can we just go play the mariners again?

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[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

Time for the COOGS!

Looking forward to Allen's debut.

[juliogotay]

Powell too.

yea, they will make good trade chips in a few years.

[Jacksonian]

Oklahoma is very good.

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

See if it'll hold up.

Wishful thinking.

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

Hatcher pitched Reddick like he wanted nothing to do with him.

[Lefty]

This is the most unexpectedly disgustingly bizarre series I can recall.

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

This is the most unexpectedly disgustingly bizarre series I can recall.

I've got a huge brush pile down by the river. All the crap that fell out of the trees during the hurricane. I'm gonna go light it up. Cause I need to burn something down.

[The Third Man]

This is some ultra shitty baseball and Hinch's bullpen decisions are a big part of this.

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

Now it's 8 to 4 in favor of the A's.

[Bench]

11-4.

[juliogotay]

this is not your dad's Boog Powelll. And this is not the A's we've seen before. Oh, and our bullpen sucks.

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

Now it's 11-4. Feliz has no business on a major league mound. Not when you have a J.D. Davis.

[Bench]

At least the Astros can still say they've won 7 of their last 10!

[doyce7]

Fucking hell. Keuchel better go 9 tomorrow

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[Aussie Astro]

I've got a huge brush pile down by the river. All the crap that fell out of the trees during the hurricane. I'm gonna go light it up. Cause I need to burn something down.

I like hitting solid objects with a club hammer.

[doyce7]

I like hitting solid objects with a club hammer.

Cutting shit up with a good sharp sword works too

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[Lefty]

I've got a huge brush pile down by the river. All the crap that fell out of the trees during the hurricane. I'm gonna go light it up. Cause I need to burn something down.

You're a good man, and thorough.  I've got about 6 over here that I need to torch the next dewey morning.

I just discovered that Baylor, fresh off their loss to Jerry Falwell Tech, is losing by 10 to UTSA with 6mins left in the 4th.

[The Spleen]

At least the Astros can still say they've won 7 of their last 10!

Those might be the last they win.
I'm only mostly joking.

[The Spleen]

More seriously, they've been deer in the headlights since the seventh inning of the first game... probably about the time they heard that the McHugh injury was serious.

[Bench]

More seriously, they've been deer in the headlights since the seventh inning of the first game... probably about the time they heard that the McHugh injury was serious.

According to the mlb.com article today the injury might not be serious.  But they have certainly sucked in the last 22 hours.

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

You're a good man, and thorough.  I've got about 6 over here that I need to torch the next dewey morning.

I just discovered that Baylor, fresh off their loss to Jerry Falwell Tech, is losing by 10 to UTSA with 6mins left in the 4th.

UTSA has a good coach. Will probably be the next LSU head coach.

[Aussie Astro]

Nothing like ending a really sucky game with a DP

[HudsonHawk]

And the Astros no longer have the best record on the league. So now maybe Kalas can stop fucking talking about it.

[Bench]

Get a good night's sleep and fuck 'em up tomorrow. 

[The Third Man]

And the Astros no longer have the best record on the league. So now maybe Kalas can stop fucking talking about it.

That shit is well and truly over. The difference in the whole damn season may come down to the six games they lost to the two teams in the AL that are tanking, Chicago and Oakland. FML