The Astros jumped to an early lead against the Professor and held on with a strong bullpen winning 5-4 Tuesday night in Chicago.
Roy Oswalt , fresh off the DL, pitched six innings and had a pair of hits at the dish in earning his sixth victory of the season. He allowed three runs on eight hits in his first win since May 3rd. Read More
By Craig Elliott
The Astros just took a sweet 3-of-4 from the Braves, and the bandwagon looks like it’s breaking down. That team looked like Chipper, AndrUw, and seven guys named Joe. Meanwhile, Berkman also hit some serious bombs, and even Eric Munson had a two-homer game. Jason Lane knocked in five runs in one game, for fuck’s sake.
The Astros are six games behind the suddenly constipated Jakes, who find themselves without a PooHole. The Reds are two games back, but have lost four in a row and may be starting their annual Fade to Pink tour.
The Cubs lost the opener of a four-game series in Cincinnati, but then took the last three. That string of three wins is all that kept them from dropping behind Pittsburgh into the cellar.
When:
Tuesday, June 13, 7:05 p.m. CDT – FSN
Wednesday, June 14, 7:05 p.m. CDT – FSN
Thursday, June 15, 1:20 p.m. CDT – FSN
MLB Extra Innings – Tuesday’s and Thursday’s games will be on the Chicago Fox affiliate. Wednesday’s will be on Fox Southwest. Or you could probably use WGN, but I’m not going to their website to look it up.
Where: Wrigley Field
On Tuesday, 500 lucky Cub fans will win a Greg Maddux autographed magic baseball. It’s always 6 inches from where you think it is.
Rookie starter Fernando Nieve pitched into the eight inning and struck out nine in leading the Astros to a 7-2 win in game two of the four game weekend series against the Braves. Nieve allowed only a two-run home run by Andruw Jones, shutting down the Braves after falling behind 2-0 after the first inning. He gave up only three singles the rest of the way, all by catcher Bruce McCann, after Jones took him deep. Read More
By Craig Elliott
The Astros took the series with the Cubs, despite a monstrous hosing from Carlos Zambrano. Chris Burke threw his shoulder out again on a swing and a miss, and then again at the press conference, and then again after that. Barzilla got called up while Roy rests his back.
The Braves just lost three of four to the Nationals, and before that they got swept by the Snakes. They’re trying to keep sight of the Mets, which is even worse than it sounds.
When:
Thursday, June 8, 7:05 p.m. CDT – FSN
Friday, June 9, 7:05 p.m. CDT – FSN
Saturday, June 10, 3:05 p.m. CDT – Fox
Sunday, June 11, 1:05 p.m. CDT – FSN
MLB Extra Innings – Thursday, Friday, and Sunday’s games will be on Fox Southwest. Saturday’s game will be on the Fox mothership. And I suppose you could watch these games on the Watch The Braves Suck bandwagon, if you really wanted.
Where: MMPUS
Some standard promos this weekend like Friday fireworks and K-card giveaways, but Sunday will be Photo Day and kids can run the bases. Lance Berkman will be on hand to receive instructional tips from the youngsters.
Rookie Chris Sampson , in his first major league start, pitched seven innings of three-hit ball in leading the Astros to a 1-0 win Wednesday afternoon over the Cubs.
Sampson, called up from Round Rock less than a week ago, took the punch out of the Cubs bats with a heavy sinker that recorded 16 ground ball outs. Read More
