At least Colonel Klink was fun to watch. 
I just want to slap Kalas every time he says “didn’t have to be a strike.” JUST FUCKING SAY IT WAS A BAD CALL.
Tying run comes to the plate for the Astros with 1 out
Shit, I thought that might get out.
2 on, 2 out, Dubon at bat
Dubon strikes out, Astros lose 4-1
Just a little too far under it.
What a shit sandwich of a game.
Thats about as much of a dogshit effort as you’ll ever see
Up until the 9th inning. Can’t ask for much more from a bunch of PH off the bench.
Sure would’ve been nice to see even a slight bit of effort in the 8 innings before.
At least they’re going to spare us the stomach-churning emotions of postseason games.
This is just defeatest bullshit. They are still tied for the 6th best record in the league despite all the injuries, across the board. I’m not saying they are repeating, far from it. If they don’t get healthy they might squeak into a postseason spot and get run but we have no idea what the next 2 or 3 months holds. The sky has not fallen, yet.
Edit: and by league, I mean baseball
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Agreed.
Few really believe it is over, but it’s easy to begin to griping like spoiled Yankee fans. Can’t win every game.
It is a miracle the team has remained in the hunt with the personnel loses. I saw one article (ESPN?) that reported the 40% (+/-) of Astros games were started by pitchers with less and 100 career inning pitched, (iirc) second to the A’s.
Amazing!
Depending on the timing of the return of Alvarez & Altuve (etc.), the race this year has the potential be the most nail-biting finish in years.
The Astros just lost to a guy with an ERA above 5 and a July ERA over 10.
He was giving up a run an inning in the last month.
The Astros scored ONE fucking run against him, and managed ZERO runs against a bullpen with a 5.5+ ERA.
That’s not being spoiled, that’s losing to a SHITTY pitcher and an even shittier team.
Losing games like this is how teams miss the playoffs, and acting like losing to the worst team in baseball is not a big deal is exactly how you end up wondering what happened when the season is over and the Astros are outside looking in.
This is sunshine up the ass bullshit at it’s finest, and nobody should be even remotely okay with losing a game to such a terrible individual opponent and team.
This game was extremely predictable.
I have been saying it for weeks now - this team has a glaring weakness vs RHP.
Tucker, Bregman, Chas, and Diaz are the only current players average or better vs RHP ( and Diaz was on the bench).
The majority of the current roster is much weaker vs RHP
wRC+ vs RHP , vs LHP = +/- %
Kessinger 95 , 242 = (-147%)
Pena 69 , 120 = (-51%)
Tucker 127 , 182 = (-55%)
Bregman 137 , 58 = +79%
Abreu 79 , 76 = + 3%
McCormick 131 , 189 = (-58%)
Julks 94 , 87 = +7%
Meyers 84, 121 = (-37%)
Maldonado 38 , 72 = (-34%)
Madris 57 , -100 = +157%
Diaz 129 , 30 = +99%
Dubon 69 , 133 = (-64%)
Hensley -23 , 68 = (-91%)
Getting Yordan and Altuve back will help, but that will still leave over half the roster, below average vs RHP.
Outside of Maldy, Dusty started the right 9 guys. And Brown specifically brought Madris up to address this weakness vs RHP so I don’t mind the PH move ( which actually got the tying run to the plate).
I actually don’t mind Maldy starting vs LHP, but until this is addressed, the Astros don’t have enough firepower in the lineup to sit Diaz vs a RHSP or play Maldy. Maldy’s wRC+ since June 1st is 2 vs RHP.
The bigger picture is that this team is going to lose games because they can’t score unless this weakness is addressed. 83% of the starting rotations among AL contenders are right handed.
Looks like I picked an excellent game to not watch.
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It was not a game that bred confidence. Perhaps today will be better.
That’s one of the great things about baseball…a minimum of 161 times you get to say “now go win the next one”
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