Wasn’t even a little close
Thoughts and prayers
Top 4:
Yordan grounds 4-3
Tucker singles to RF
Julks grounds to left side, both 3b and SS whiff, Tucker to 3b. Ruled a single for some reason.
Diaz with a quality fly ball to LF. Tucker scores on sac fly.
Pick off through wild to first, Julks all the way to third.
Hensley draws a walk to put runners on the corner.
Jake with a two hopper to third. Ruled out, Astros challenge. Not even close, this should easily be overturned. Overturned in record time. Astros take the 3-2 lead.
Machete plunked by a 1-2 pitch to load the bases.
Canning relieved
Sure would be nice if Pena, you know, did something.
Like that!
Thank you for throwing something hittable for some absolutely idiotic reason.
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I’m in a generous mood
Thank god for the stupid stupid people at the ballgame.
Bregman has nerves of steel on that 3-2 take.
man Yordan had one to hit and just pulled off of it
And Yordan shits himself.
I didn’t see this posted:
https://twitter.com/chandler_rome/status/1656392352095965184?s=61&t=g3n7aWNRpCG3SGl62w3qhg
Dusty Baker said he thinks José Abreu is hurt, but said Abreu won’t say where.
Top 4 cont’d:
Pena waves at 2 sliders he couldn’t reach with Paul Bunyan’s axe. But the next one catches the zone, laced into RF for a 2 run single, Maldy to third. Astros 5-2.
Bregman takes a sky-high strike 1. The zone sits at the top of the catcher’s helmet. 1-1 is a strike 2 in the same place. Blum says that a ball off the plate is more of a strike than a ball above the zone, which I guess I get? Bregman draws a 3-2 walk.
Yordan flies to RF
Mid 4, 5-2 Astros
Really important that Javier doesn’t dickstomp runs right back here.
And Chandler replies to himself having noted that Salazar is the team’s only bench player today:
That’s just fundamentally poor roster construction.
In his age? He just looks really old and slow. Kinda like Yuli got the last couple of years.
I guess being hired by The Athletic immediately turned Rome into an Astros critic.
Nice job by Javier to put up a zero after getting a bunch of runs.
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I think it frees him up not to be a lackey since that’s all the Chronicle will allow with respect to any of the teams they cover
Bot 4:
Ohtani flies to CF
Rendon K looking
Renfroe draws a walk
Javier strikes out Drury looking after ump calls ball 1 on dead middle above the knee.
End 4, Astros 5-2
There have always been undercurrents but now he can just be more open about it.