against the Astros in spring training. He is one of the top LHP prospects in baseball, but it is probably too early for him to be in the MLs. But the Marlins are in no position to keep him in the minors. My recollection is that he didn't allow a run and K'd a bunch of Astros in his spring outing against them.

in the 1st. But he had four hard hit balls--2 LDs to the warning track for outs and 2 singles, one of which almost took his head off.

K's, Loretta grounds out, and Berkman with a ground single past Ramirez.

by Tejeda drives in run. Close play at plate but Berkman slides to side of home plate. Ball fell between 2d and CF.

scratched again from Corpus Christi's lineup.

Blum nice pick of a grounder at 3d off Cantu's bat.

I'm sick of Comcast. I'm going to call Direct TV and see if they get the games. When they are supposed to

out on grounder to 3d which Blum shuffled to 2d.

Astros 2d inning with double to LF..

He looked equally bad in both at bats today....flailing at curveballs in the dirt. All he needed to do was make contact and he could have had an RBI.

Pence struggle like this, heh. He has to stop swinging at that first breaking pitch.

Hell yeah! 2 run homer!

then swings away, and Blum picks his hard grounder at 3d.

:(

Will miss most of the game if not all.. Go 'Stros!

He's not going to go six innings at this rate.

now Blum K's.

on curveball.

Drew a walk. Gotta start somewhere

has a 3-2 count and scurries to 1st base on a wild pitch. He was thinking 2d base, I guess, but didn't have a chance.

Now Pence is tthrown out on an attempted steal.

lead off hit on 3-2 count.

With a little luck, Backe makes it through five without giving up a run.

Cantu with a hot grounder to Blum who cleanly picks it. Blum's defense is a welcome alternative to Wigginton, I must say.

And, on thatt sequence to Cantu, I can see why the pitchers like Ausmus. He always frames the ball well and moves his target from outside to inside and back, with each pitch.

and Carlos with a line drive single in tthe hole at short, puts runnerrs on 1st, 2d.

Exciting! How many runs will they give up today? I guess 6 because that would be just enough for us to lose.

he gave up some runs in last outing, but stuff still looked pretty good. I feel a litttle better about him.

Geary gets a pop up. 1 out.

You have to slide in that situation. He can run, but has very little baseball knowledge. Cruz jr. should be our CF.

then gets out of inning with grounder to Tejada.

with runners in scoring position. Only Rockies and Yankees are worse.

3d out...I guess I missed one of the outs.

Gets 1st out of 8th inning on a flyball to Bourn.

can have a 1,2,3 inning

to get another at bat with a homer and a couple of RBIs. My fantasy team is kinda weak today with none of my pitchers starting today.

on base. He gets a decent swing, and a line drive to L CF, but it is caught.

wow, it has dragged on at times.

Looks like the Astros are doing good in my absense... Hopefully me being home to watch the finall innings doesn't hurt them.

on his bobble head night.

But no way in hell he gets Ramirez there..

He's gonna give up 5 runs with Lee and Tejada up next.

out on force out....don't know if he had DP chance if he didn't bobble it.

If he gets Jacobs out?

just so long as he gets out of fthis without damage. At least as far as I'm concerned.

Astros got their first shut out. it didn't feel like a shut out during the game. A lot of messy innings.

cooper said in post-game conference that Valverde has been sick this week and blamed his rustiness on that.

:)
I will be wearing the shirt.