He didn’t start the game, Bogusevic did, but J Happ only managed to last 4 innings – 6 runs given up and wasn’t none of it lousy fielding, just lousy pitching.
You KNOW if Happ had been picked by Purpura, he’s have been thrown out on his ass with Towles, CJ and Wallace. I just don’t know what to say about Happ that I haven’t already said. He throws an incredible number of pitches which get fouled off. He threw 100 pitches and 63 strikes. 5 of the strikes were swing and miss and 3 of those were from the pitcher.
sigh
I will say in his defense that he got squoze a little bit – 6 pitches that were strikes called balls – and 2 of em on his last batter faced, McGehee – pitches 2 and 4 were CLEARLY strikes.
Anyway, JB not only singled his first time at bat – and nice clean single up the middle – he stole his first ML base with Bourgeois batting, but Altuve didn’t drive him in from third, so no run scored.
Brownie and JD (now I guess I’m going to have to say Deshaeis seeing as how we now have a player named JD) said more than once that the Organization has already penciled in JB (all we need now is a JC) as a 4th OF because he doesn’t steal enough to play center (like Schafer does???) and he doesn’t hit with enough power to play right (and like they are thinking WHO hits with enough power to play right???). He looked pretty good in right with the glove, but arm wasn’t impressive.
The game – well, nothing much to report except that Gallardo was nails, the Astros left the bases loaded in the second, 1 out, and Corey Hart hit a homer to the Conoco Pump offn Aneury Rod (he sure nuff have given up some LONG homers, hasn’t he?) The young guys didn’t do real too much against Gallardo, but he IS a very VERY good ML pitcher and I wasn’t surprised.
Clank snapped his ofer 23 with a single – and speaking of ofers, Enerio was good enough to help Craig Counsell snap his 0fer 45. I remember that Brad Ausmus was like ofer 40 in June 06 – his BA dropped from over 300 to like 200.
And Matt Downs made the first really GOOD play I’ve ever seen him make, barehanding a ball at third to throw out Kotsay – and yeah, he’s not fast any more, but it was still a good play.
Tomorrow, we face Chris Narveson again – we faced him last week – he gave up 3 runs in 6.2 IP – we came back against K-rod, but Froddy blew the save and Astros, as usual, lost.
Tags: Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers
I’m thinking these guys go by their initials just to mess with Mills and his nicknames.
I am shocked that they haven’t sent Happ down to AAA. Word is, they don’t want him EITHER! The guy has got the WORST case of “GRIMLINS” in his brain!!!!
Ed Wade said just last month “We are not going to bring guys up from the minors
as a way of patting them on the back for playing well”. I gotta secret for ya Eddie
YOU DON’T HAVE ANYONE ELSE!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Becky:(
It has got to be super depressing to go out there and play in the field behind Happ right now. You know he’s gonna be pounded, you have almost no hope of winning, and you’re out there forever. If only we had a good pitching coach to help him. Oh yeah, we fired him.
wags
also messes with milo-ie putting -ie on the end of everyones’ names. terrible when you get players like aneury and jose altuve with a ready made ie on the name. poor milo – what a terrible situation
i like how JD martinez explained that mikie barnettie helped him with his stance/hands. interesting that he couldn’t seem to do anything with CJ or wallacie or towles-ie who are killing AAA pitching.
and people disbelieve that there is any kind of mental component to playing baseball.
- amusement – wonder what they are gonna do about kody hinze, age 23, who was an undrafted FA signing by the astros in 08 who is playing 1B and killing AA pitching. he’s not a “prospect” – HORRORS!!!!! wrong round!!!!!
becky,
happ needs SOME kind of pitching coach – and what he has Up Here ain’t helping him at ALL – and we fired ours. the guy has a defeated look. i know that look. i see it with every guy ed wade don’t like who is gonna be sent down the minnit he has ANY trouble because he wasn’t wanted in the first place because his succeeding proved ed wade wrong.
rat b,
there is ZERO evidence that shooting up with hgh does anything whatsoever for baseball performance. it’s not a steroid. it got banned because no one wants to bother to actually wonder if it does anything and it is used WITH anabolic roids by bodybuilders to thin out their skin to make the muscles show better
he was SUPPOSEDLY usng hgh – and again there is ZERO evidence, he didn’t buy or borrow it – and this was AFTER he had already broken his wrist.
this is why i shrug off A ball performance. all KINDS of great A ball hitters who go nowheres
Isn’t EVERYBODY killing AAA pitching?
Lisa, Ed Wade sent Happ to OKC this afternoon. Let’s hope it isn’t too late. B:)
Wesley Wrong
wags
nope – check the rest of the lineup
becky,
bout time. dude looked like a deer in the headlights – hope that burt hooton can fix him up
If you check closely you will see that the astros pitching was very lousy the first 21/2 months of the season when Arnsberg was here also. So thou he may be better then Brocail, he sure wasn’t all that great like most of you contend.
sceptor……..Arnsberg was a GREAT pitching coach. Doug Brocail is just a
retired bullpen pitcher. I have no doubt he’s doing the best he knows how, but a
pitching coach…..he ain’t. Burt Hooten is “the” guy, and the pitchers who have
gone to him for help, sing his praises. The biggest mistake Ed Wade made, was
firing Jim Hickey. Look at the way he has worked with the Ray’s pitching staff.
When Crane gets the “keys to the car”, I doubt ANY of the current coaching staff
will be retained next year. Becky:)
Becky,
You may have to come up with another biggest mistake made by Ed Wade, because Hickey was fired on October 4, 2006, during the Purpura regime.
wags……..OOPS! my bad! I guess you can tell how much I detest Wade and Tal Smith!
jim hickey got fired because he (so i hear tell) drank too much, not because he was bad – because he was good. dave wallace left for reasons of his own, but at least he had a good rep.
dewey robinson was a disaster.
arnesberg has a great reputation and quite obviously, he had a problem with SOMEbody – either fast eddie or millsie-poo. brocail obviouslyis not a pitching coach but you KNOW drayton wasn’t gonna spend no $$$
WHY???? do people keep thinking/saying that crane is gonna spend money on anything/anyone when he has made it clear that he is NOT going to?