{"id":1272,"date":"2008-07-07T22:36:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T03:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spikesnstars.com\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2008-07-07T22:36:19","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T03:36:19","slug":"qa-on-astros-pirates-7708","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/2008\/07\/07\/qa-on-astros-pirates-7708\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A on Astros-Pirates, 7\/7\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pirates 10, Astros 7<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>W:<\/strong> Bautista (2-2) <strong>L:<\/strong> R. Hernandez (0-3) <strong>S:<\/strong> Marte (2)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/gameday\/index.jsp?gid=2008_07_07_houmlb_pitmlb_1&amp;mode=gameday\">Box score<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/houston.astros.mlb.com\/news\/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20080707&amp;content_id=3087974&amp;vkey=recap&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;c_id=hou\">Footer surveys the damage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, so just a few simple multiple-choice questions on tonight&#8217;s game:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>1.  Runelvys, on this night, most resembled:<\/strong><br \/>\na.  <img src='http:\/\/i.walmartimages.com\/i\/p\/00\/84\/25\/69\/00\/0084256900087_215X215.jpg'><br \/>\nb.  <img src='http:\/\/www.anacondasports.com\/wcsstore\/anaconda10\/images\/s1010_lge.jpg' alt='batting practice' class='alignnone' \/><br \/>\nc.  <img src=\"http:\/\/i203.photobucket.com\/albums\/aa131\/elhombre2007\/punching-bag.jpg\" alt=\"punching bag\" \/><br \/>\nd.  <img src=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/photo\/photogallery\/season_2003\/0717\/01.jpg\" alt=\"Lima Time\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.  Runelvys allowed how many baserunners in 4 innings?<\/strong><br \/>\na.  17<br \/>\nb.  Eleventy billion<br \/>\nc.  I don&#8217;t know, I lost track about the time the Pirates all had hits by the 4th inning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.  Coop&#8217;s decision to leave Runelvys in that long was:<\/strong><br \/>\na.  The right decision, given the previous day&#8217;s 17 inning marathon<br \/>\nb.  The right decision &#8211; the 4th inning got out of hand too fast<br \/>\nc.  Indefensible*<\/p>\n<p>(* &#8211; option available only to Chronicle hacks and talk show hosts)<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.  Chad Poronto&#8217;s 4 inning, 1 hit performance was:<\/strong><br \/>\na.  Sorely needed<br \/>\nb.  An audition for more work<br \/>\nc.  Wasted in this 10-7 loss<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.  Hunter Pence is currently:<\/strong><br \/>\na.  Lost at the plate<br \/>\nb.  Completely lost at the plate<br \/>\nc.  Made to look better only by the necessity of giving Towles at bats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6.  The Astros will finish:<\/strong><br \/>\na.  Fourth in the Central<br \/>\nb.  Fifth in the Central<br \/>\nc.  Last in the Central<br \/>\nd.  Wild Card, baby!  WooHoo!!!<\/p>\n<p>Cheer on your last place Astros tomorrow at 6:05 CDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pirates 10, Astros 7 W: Bautista (2-2) L: R. Hernandez (0-3) S: Marte (2) Box score Footer surveys the damage OK, so just a few simple multiple-choice questions on tonight&#8217;s game:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}