I guess that sounds better than – once again, Astros Display Massive Suckage.
Roy wasn’t at his best – he threw 7 innings, 120 pitches and gave up 8 hits – 1 homer, 1 triple, 1 double and 5 singles, 4 walks, 1 IBB and 6 K (2 to the pitcher) and his offense didn’t pick him up. Seems to me he had trouble finishing guys off after getting them to 0-2 because there were waaayyy too many pitches fouled off.
So what is there good to say?
Well, Tommy Manzella made three absolutely incredible plays and turned 3 DPs and turned what would have been a fer SHER single up the middle for Bronson Arroyo into an out.
Michael Bourn hit a single and an RBI double and Pence, after my bout giving up on that boy, hit a homer almost up to the trax above the Crawford Boxes and also hit a good clean single (NOT an IF hit or a roller that squeaked through) to left center.
I gots to give Clank props for the high socks – first time I ever remember seeing him wear them – but he keeps striking out and an incredible rate (for him) 16 K in 79 AB – and he swung at a pitch that was so far out of the strike zone that he almost fell over. Feliz just looked awful and Towles didn’t have one good AB. Manzella at least hit a double and scored a run.
And if the guys look THIS bad against Bronson Arroyo, imagine how they are gonna look tomorrow against Tommy Hanson and the Braves, who I know are on a losing streak of their own, but the Stros haven’t exactly thrived at Turner field…
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Before the game, Bill Brown was saying that lefties have hit Arroyo pretty well. If Bill Brown knew it, then the Astros should have known it. What I can’t figure out is why Blum wasn’t in the starting lineup.
No way I let Towles hit in the 9th. I don’t know why you would when you need to score a couple of runs just to keep playing.
Having Sullivan on the team isn’t helping anything, but I don’t know of anyone else that could help–or at least anyone else who needs to be with the big club and sitting on the bench.
And now Wandy is having back trouble and has had his start pushed back…
“props for the high socks” with this team you have to work hard to find things to appreciate. It’s turning into therapy!
mark,
i’d rather we called up someone from round rock like jason bourgeois and gave him a chance. cory sullivan is ALWAYS the first person sent up to pinch hit, whether or not the game is on the line or not. and i am TIRED of it. then again, mills MIGHT be doing it on purpose, younevahknow….
There’s a fine line that has to be walked with bench players. The organization probably thinks that it’s better for Bourgeois to play every day at RR than to sit on the bench and get 4 or 5 AB’s a week in H-town. On the other hand, if Sullivan hadn’t gotten that pinch 3-bagger early in the season, he might have already been sent out.
I didn’t have high expectations for this team going into the season, and so far I haven’t been disappointed. There’s still a lot of baseball left, and you just never know what might happen and who might step up.