The worst part of losing Altuve is not the absence of Altuve it’s the presence of Dubon.
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Yep. This is where they miss not having someone like Marwin Gonzalez, Aledmys Diaz or even Yuli as their super utility option.
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Stanek should have the Dale Earnhardt 3 on his sleeve instead of Oxy…
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Fuck.
Jeebus. How have the Tigers not won 130 games the last few years?
I’m officially concerned about our bullpen.
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I’m concerned about the entire Astros’ team. This is terrible in all phases.
This is just a can of ass - no whoop in sight. Or its just our asses getting smacked
The kicking game has been solid.
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Maybe when they go on the road the bullpen will stop giving up homers.
Top 8
Stanek in to face Baez. 97 in the zone, 0-1. Out, 1-1. Fouls a slider, 1-2. Slider up, did he go? Nope. 2-2. Fouled off an inside pitch. Slider slapped to short, 6-3. 1 out.
Greene takes a ball out that goes to the backstop, 1-0. Up, ball 2. Fouls off a heater, 2-1. In, 3-1. Fast ball blooped in to shallow center, single.
Torkelson up with a runner on 1st and one out, Way outside. Stanek is overthrowing a lot, 1-0. Bottom of the zone at 99, 1-1. 99 MPH fastball thigh high and center cut hammered to deep left center and gone off the top of the Community Leaders board. He was sitting fastball and destroyed that ball. 420 foot homer. 5-2 Tigers.
Haase takes a ball fouls off a strike, 1-1. Takes strike 2 at the top of the zone. Saws him off, foul ball. Ponche, chases a slider. 2 out.
Miggy swings through a top of the zone fastball, 0-1. Fouls off 99 at the top of the zone, 0-2. Driven to center, Meyers cruises over and hauls it in in the alley. 3 outs, but the Astros continue to gag.
Bottom 8, 5-2 Tigers
Does the road help the starters go deeper in games? Or make the offense more consistent? It’s not just the bullpen.
The offense has two runs tonight. Against the Tigers.
The Tigers are a BAD baseball team, and they are slapping around the Astros.
This team fucking sucks right now.
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The hotels all have room service and the women all have long legs and brains.
Also, the top two guys in the Astros order are .167/.494 and .174/.470. If either one of those two were getting on base at any kind of clip the Astros would be scoring 2-3 more runs a game.
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The good old slumpbuster. Hopefully.
That should have been crushed by Abreu.
And that’s their last opportunity to score. They’re essentially batting four innings to the other teams’ nine.
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Bottom 8
Bregman up facing Chasen Shreve. Takes one off the outside corner for strike one. Chases a pitch that almost fucking bounces and fouls it off, 0-2. Slapped foul off the wall of Dumbass Cove. 3 hopper to the SS, 6-3. 1 out.
Yordan takes one up. Doinks one in to shallow center for a single.
Abreu up with a runner on first and one out. Slider on the outside corner, 0-1. Swings over a knee high breaker, 0-2. Gets a fastball right down the fucking middle and pops out to shortstop, P6. 2 outs.
Tucker right on spinning slider at the top of the zone, fouled back. 91 at the knees, 0-2. Pulled foul. Popped foul down the LF line. Swings a mile over a slider for strike 3.
End 8, 5-2 Tigers.
This is fucking pathetic. Someone else can take it home. I have zero interest in keeping up with this anymore.
The number of times the Astros hitters were down 0-2 tonight against a bunch of schlubs is just fucking garbage.