As a sidebar: I got the H-E-B Bakery Tortilla chips con llima y chile today. Excellent.
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So you have that going for you.
Which is nice.
There needs to be some sort of official rite of slump busting passage for Tucker as soon as possible. He looks completely off lately.
Which is a shame, because this pitching staff is up there with 80 and 86.
There is no excuse for anyone but Chas in CF against a lefty.
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Maybe he should change his batting gloves a few thousand more times.
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During inexplicable periods of poor hitting, a baseball team at any level needs to try to manufacture runs out of the few base runners it gets. Small ball bunt, steal, hit and run, squeeze are examples of trying to score without hitter after hitter swinging away each AB as though times were good. Dusty and his Astros appear disinclined to change the team’s approach to offense. This current malaise shall pass, but there will be some hard-to-take losses until it does…e.g., 3-2 and 2-1 at home to woeful Boston.
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So true. When Bregman walked instead of moving the runner to third, my immediate reaction was “uh oh.” Batting in the 2-hole may have awakened Yuli, but the team now needs him in an RBI slot. I would move Peña back to 2 and Yuli back to 6 behind Tucker or Peña at 2, Yuli at 5, and Tucker at 6.
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