Houston Astros at Texas Rangers, 7:05 PM CDT
Houston Astros at Texas Rangers, May 16, 2008 7:05 PM CDT
BATTLE FOR THE BOOT!!!!
Erstad looks like he's going to get some starts in this series at 1st base and in left field while Carlos Lee and Lance Berkman DH. If Erstad does well in this series and Bourn continues to be a terrible hitter... Then it might be time to start giving Erstad some more playing time and cut down on Bourn's.
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Matsui doubles...
Hamilton makes a running catch in deep centerfield, but can’t hold on to the ball when he hits the ground.
I watch him
almost every game, and yes he is fast.
Berkman flies out at the left field wall
and Kinsler pretty much repeats that performance when the Rangers come up to bat.
Pence tosses a foul pall up to an Astros fan ...
he can’t make the catch and a Rangers fan snags the ball.
Plus. Chacon is sucking today.
The Abyss of the order to bat now.
out 1, 2 and 3 coming in order. Hopefully they can get Erstad home before that though. :p
I wish he would...
cause all Lance his done is fly out to left field all day.
:p
by entropic soul on May 16, 2008 8:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah.
The Rangers are golden if they don’t score again.
by entropic soul on May 16, 2008 8:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Darnit
They broke the no outs streak. :(
by entropic soul on May 16, 2008 8:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Looks like
Chacon’s giving the Stros a challenge to try and preserve his no-decision.
Ten bucks we tie it and Hamilton hits a massive walk-off shot off, let’s say, Villareal.
Astros
up to the challenge, apparently. :p
by entropic soul on May 16, 2008 8:40 PM CDT up reply actions
8-5 now. This could be a high scoring game.
Nice swing of the bat by Tejada. I’m glad he survived the take out slide by Carlos Lee on that foul pop up.
8-6 on a Lee single.
Other than Tejeda’s hit, the Astros have been dinkin’ and dunkin’ this inning. Hit em where they aint.
No runs against Psychowski!?
Wah wah waaaaaaaaaaah????
by entropic soul on May 16, 2008 8:47 PM CDT up reply actions
Ponson done after 5
and giving up 7 runs.
See? told you he was no good. :p
He is only charged with 3 earned runs, which is pretty much a joke since it’s HIS error that did and we pretty much had to give him the last out. :p
Bourn steals...he needs to steal every chance against Salty...
Anyone recall that Saltamacchia allowed something like 6 steals in a game last year?
Miggy down
swinging.
Game tied, no decision for Chacon, got banned from LSB for posting an introductory comment.
what did you say?
they have neve banned me
It was remotely my fault
I think they took it the wrong way.
I basically introduced myself as a Stros fan who gave up on the Rangers after they signed A-Rod.
Oh wait, I think they rectified it. Or it was some SBNation bug.
Adam Morris
The main writer of the site lives in Houston, by the way. They usually don’t mind fans of other teams as linga s you don’t talk noise.
Wesley Wright
OI have really liked him since seeing him in spring training
Surprisingly
I’m not as nervous as in games against other teams.
Must be because I’m fine with the Rangers.
And that other Angel guy
There’s two of them out there tonight.
Why, though, they left Wright in for two hitters too many. He should have been pulled right after the 9th run was scored.
Dear Josh Hamilton
Would you like to play center field for a winning team?
Please contact me ASAP at 713-555-9233
Yours truly,
Ed Wade
Pence tried to throw out Kinsler
at the plate and to the Astros dugout, it looked like Towles got him since the arm kind of went between the legs, but the feet got there first. Cooper jumped around yelling about it, but didn’t appear to be rude about it in any way, but Angel Hernandez tossed him anyways because he’s a dick and that’s what he does best.
Close call at home
Rangers scored. Coop was pissed. Argued about it till he got tossed.
by entropic soul on May 16, 2008 9:57 PM CDT up reply actions
If our infield defense had not taken the day off
we’d be winning this game. I guess they can’t play without Lance.
Rangers announcers:
“Something about the Rangers and Astros playing each other seems to produce a large amount of Ranger home runs.”
No shit. We both play in band boxes.
looking at gameday
it must be close to a record for a number of highlight videos. They’ve got the Pence catch. Guy is a hoot.
WOW
Villareal is not on this team anymore by tomorrow.
Well, if management were sane, that is what i’d expect.
It pisses me off how shitty some of our players are
when we have some really awesome players on the team too. People like Bourn, Wigginton, Towles, Villareal are dragging us down.
See I don't particularly see Bourn and Towles
as shitty players. Maybe they didn’t sparkle the minute their rookie selves put on the uniform like Pence, but both warrant sticking around and might become decent one of these days. Wiggy and Villareal… Wade’s good getting relief guys and there’s gotta be a third baseman looking for work, right?
They don't need to sparkle.
Just not suck ass.
by entropic soul on May 16, 2008 10:25 PM CDT up reply actions
Well, err....
You win some, you lose some?
Hopefully tomorrow we can pretend this just didn’t happen.
Remember when the Astros were No. 1 in least errors and best fielding percent?
Well, now the Astros are 7th lowest in errors and 9th in fielding percent (NL).

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