in the top of the 1st. RBI doubles from Wiggy, Blum, and Cruz, after Loretta and Erstad singled.

one out.

Us

Bourn, CF
Loretta, 1B
Erstad, RF
Wiggington, 3B
Blum, SS
Cruz, LF
Newhan, 2B
Towles, C
Chacon, P

Them

Ramirez, SS
Ugla, 2B
McPherson, 3B
Willingham, LF
Jacobs, 1B
Gonzalez, RF
Maybin, CF
Treanor, C
Volstad, P

Ramirez on with an infield single off the boot of Chacon.

Uggla loops one out to right. Erstad dives for it, but can't get to it. Newhan going out, trips over Erstad and the ball ends up in somebody's hat. Somebody finally gathers and throws in, and fortunately Uggla stays at 1st and Ramirez is only at 3rd. Wonder if that looked as silly as it sounds.

through the right side. Ramirez scores. nothing hit hard yet, but three up, none out regardless.

4-1 Astros, 1st and 2nd, no outs.

Bourn lays down a bunt, but is out by a hair on a great throw by Treanor.

Volstad pinch hit for after throwing 60+ pitches in two innings, and the radio guys are commenting that maybe he needs a little more seasoning in the minors, not quite as sarcastically as maybe i'm sounding.

missed who the pinch hitter was, but Chacon gets a 1-2-3 second inning on three ground ball outs. maybe we was thrown off by having to swing a bat before pitching his first inning.

still 7-3 Astros.

Towles goes down on strikes. Waechter on the mound now.

Chacon lines to center and Maybin traps it. Chacon foolishly tries to go for two and is gunned down at 2nd.

Bourn grouns out and this Waechter guy has a bit more success than his predecessor.

still 7-3 Astros

McPherson reaches on an E4.

Willingham flies out.

Jacobs draws a walk. Two on for Luis Gonzales.

Loretta singles, but is erased on Erstad's GIDP.

Wiggington flies out to center, and it's another quick inning for Waechter.

still 7-6 Astros

not sure if it was Chacon, but it was a quick uneventful inning.

Perez, who had checked in defensively in the 3rd, homers down the line.

Cruz follows on the next pitch to make it back to back.

Not sure if it's still Waechter, but it's 9-6 now.

Three quick ground outs end it. Chacon was the last one, so I guess he's still pitching.

Chacon still pitching

Willingham gets on somehow. missed it and the "live" box score is so slow, i can never check back in the same inning.

Jacobs goes down looking and some words exchanged with the ump.

De Aza, who had run for Gonzalez in the 3rd, grounds into a fielders choice and Willingham is erased at 2nd.

Maybin follows with a ground out, and at times this game Chacon has seemed in control and gets the ground balls he's supposed to, but some bloop hits and some fielding miscues have cost him

still 9-6 Astros

and my attention waning a bit.

Bourn retired, now 0-4 on the day.

Loretta reached on a error.

Erstad and Wigginton leave him stranded and we're on to the botttom of the 6th, still 9-6 good guys.

Saccomano in at 3rd. Abercrombie in at RF, Erstad moving to 1st. Q in to catch. Moehler in to pitch.

Moehler hits his first batter, which was Treanor.

Gomez batting pinch hitting for the pitcher (not sure which pitcher), and Q with his signature snap throw almost gets Treanor at 1st. Gomez laces one to the wall in right center and legs it out into a triple, scoring Treanor from 1st.

Ramirez grounds out, but scores Gomez from 3rd.

Uggla flies out to Abercrombie in right.

McPherson grounds out to end it.

9-8 now, with two runs on one hit.

Gardner in to pitch for the Marlins.

Had to take a call, but come back in to the broadcast to hear it was a quick 1-2-3 inning, all outs going to the shortstop in combination of grounders and popups.

Astros still clinging to a 9-8 lead.

Moehler still in. he strands a 1-out triple to preserve the narrow lead.

two innings, one triple the only hit in each inning, but two runs in one and none in the next.

Q, Bourn, and Abercrombie go down in order. Sounded like Abercrombie got robbed of a hit by a diving catch.

Still 9-8 Astros.

Borkowski in to pitch

He gets Treanor on strikes. In the meantime, they mention that Volstad is one of the Marlins' top pitching prospects, but that maybe he'll start the season in AAA.

Lambin flies out (i think)

Amezega grounds into the hole on the right side, but Newhan makes a nice diving stop and gets the out at 1st.

Nice quick 1-2-3 inning for Borkowski.

Still 9-8 Astros going to the 9th.

Closer Kevin Gregg comes in to pitch

Saccomano bloops a base hit.

Erstad lines to left for a solid base hit. i believe Saccomano holds at 2nd.

Johnny Ash (not sure if he's pinch hitting for Borkowski, or if he was already in on a double switch) squirts one up the right field line, scoring Saccomano from 2nd. Erstad stops at 2nd.

Perez puts down a bunt and moves both runners over.

Cruz goes down swinging.

Newhan flies out to center to end it (coulda used that from Cheito).

Astros go up 10-8 in what has become a minor league game. Astros are on one of their longer road trips, so most of their big names never made the trip.

and Wesley Wright is in to pitch.

Lambin leads off with a bloop single up the right field line.

Baker finds a hole on the right side and it's two on, no outs.

Cantu singles up the middle and scores Lambin. Wright fell behind 3-0 and had to come at him. Needs to make some pitches now to wriggle out of this one with the win.

Jacobs (lefty) at the plate. Wright falls behind 3-0 again. Jacobs laces a base hit to center, but Bourn covers quickly and the runner is not sent. Bases loaded, no outs, tying run at 3rd.

Wright gets ahead of De Aza 0-2, just misses a called strike three, 1-2, misses again with a breaking ball, 2-2, misses again with a fastball, 3-2, foul, and De Aza lifts a long fly ball to left, and Cruz playing in just does get back to make the catch, but the run scores.

10-10, one out, two on.

Nelson in to pitch.

Q up, grounds to the left side, off of the 3rd baseman's glove (playing the line). the short stop covers, but Q is chugging up the line and there's no play. would have been an easy out if they weren't guarding the line.

Reggies bunts Q over to 2nd. Guess we know how Coop's gonna play these extra inning games when the lead runner is on.

and this will be it, so we're playing for our first tie of the Spring.

Jared something or other in to pitch, must be a minor leaguer they brought along. Gothreaux, as they finally spell it for me. missed the first batter trying to look it up for myself.

He walks Lambin and Baker and now it's two on, one out for Cantu.

Bourne is going to be a very streaky batter.

said he felt pretty good. prompted, he commented on the windy conditions maybe affecting the performance.

he's remarkably well-spoken, actually.