Where Houston and Austin meet
Posted in Game recaps, Gripes and Groans on Apr 12th, 2012
After winning the first game of the series against the Braves and looking pretty good doing it, the Astros looked very much like a 100-loss team, making mistake after mistake and missing opportunity after opportunity in dropping the last two games of the series in a very ugly way. Some things they had been doing [...]
Posted in Breaking News, Game recaps, Roster Moves on Mar 28th, 2012
It’s been a rough spring for Wandy Rodriguez and the first two innings yesterday looked like another bad, short outing for him. But, after allowing five runs in the first two innings, Wandy settled down to end the day with four straight scoreless innings. He retired 12 of the last 14 batters he faced. The [...]
Posted in Game recaps on Sep 27th, 2011
For the first time in many, many weeks, the contest at Minute Maid Park on Monday night actually meant something, to one of the teams involved at least. The Astros played their spoiler role well, as they knocked off the charging Cardinals to deny them a golden opportunity to tie Atlanta for the NL wild [...]
Posted in Checking in with Ex-Stros, Game recaps on Sep 27th, 2011
‘Stros blow lead, top Cards 5-4 in 10th On an ugly night for Wild Card contenders (Braves, Red Sox and Cardinals all lost), the Braves may have found a new best friend in the Astros, who helped them maintain a one-game lead over the Cardinals by topping the visiting Red Birds in extra innings. The [...]
Posted in Game recaps on Sep 24th, 2011
Offense has not been a problem in the last two games for the Astros as they have beat up on a couple of guys with terrible ERAs, out-scoring the Rockies by a total of 20-8 in the first two games of this four-game set. They teed off on Alex White (3-3, 7.04) on Thursday, scoring [...]
Posted in Game recaps on Sep 21st, 2011
On a night where Homer Bailey was trying to set a career-high with his ninth win, Bud Norris was attempting to stave off a career-high eleventh loss, the Reds were looking to snap a four-game losing streak, and the Astros were simply trying to limit their number of losses, the dreary game at Great American [...]
Posted in Game recaps, Gripes and Groans on Sep 17th, 2011
The loss yesterday to the Cubs was depressing, especially the way it happened on the last play. And although I can’t justify Chris Johnson fouling out with the lead run on second base, I can justify the play he made on the hit that scored the winning run. Brett Dolan and Dave Raymond were [...]
Posted in Game recaps on Sep 12th, 2011
Astros top Phillies, 5-1 It’s always a little fun when the Astros play the Phillies because of how many players used to be on the other side. Tonight the Phillies had former Astro Roy Oswalt on the mound against former Phillie Brett Myers, and it was a little surprising to see who came out [...]
Posted in Game recaps, Gripes and Groans on Sep 8th, 2011
I don’t believe in jinxes, bad luck or anything like that, but when you write a post like the one I did yesterday and then J.A. Happ goes out and has the performance he does, you do have a moment where you wonder if you should feel guilty about it. I doubt I jinxed him, [...]
Posted in Game recaps on Sep 6th, 2011
I promised a blow-by-blow account against the Buccos, and though it’s a week late, you can’t deny that I delivered. Both of these teams are pretty sorry at the moment, but hey, I didn’t have too much else to do on this particular Tuesday night, so my boredom is your entertainment…right? First inning: I’m pretty [...]
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