Astros at Red Sox, 8/30/23

Graveman hurt. Awesome.

Graveman done with an injury. Neris in

I wonder if Kalas will continue to blather on about how this game has been a godsend to the bullpen.

Neris cleans it up. 7-4 Astros

Jansen in for the Sox

Peña takes a meatball for strike three

TK still babbling about breaking a franchise 5-game hit record. As if that’s a thing.

Middle of eight
7-4 still

Mariners come back and win. Astros need a win to stay two games back.

2-out walk to Duvall

One game back. They lost last night.

HH is using the “loss column + tiebreaker” math

Yeah, but if they win, they’ll be only one game back in the loss column.

Nevermind, I forgot tiebreaker

And Seattle owns the tiebreaker.

To the 9th
7-4

They have to make up two games. That’s what matters.

Use grouping to show how you would determine how many games the Astros trail the Mariners.

I’m so glad Neris is on this team. Fucking nails

I guess you can spin it as one game back if it makes you feel better. But making up one game means you can’t win the division. That’s two game out of the division lead.

That was an inside joke on my part.

“Use grouping to show”
“Use rounding to show”
“Use whatever shortcut to actually doing math we taught you to show”

That’s how all my kids’ math homework read during elementary school.