Philadelphia Phillies at Houston Astros, 1:05 PM CDT

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Is this the case for everyone? It’s 2008, not 1967. There is no excuse for this crap.

And he strikes out. Woot!
Sampson on pace for a perfect game!

Astros coming to bat

No runs in 19 innings or something like that. Just fyi.

Bourns hits a screamer that’s caught fr an out. Berkman bloops to right and the right fielder seems to lose it in the sky; the bal drops in for a single

Carlos Lee batting…

A full swing comes around and the bat hits the umpire on top of the head

Cubs and Cards tied for first now. Astros 1 game back.

Carlos Lee will strike out on the first pitch thrown. :p

Entropic’s prediction is a little off.

playing AGAIN. in the 5th, Cubs leading 4-3.

Cubs are 9-2 against the Pirates after last night’s game.

There goes the perfect game. :p

And Sampson had him 0-2 at one time. Looked like a sinker which didn’t sink enough.

pitching like Sampson. Allows a 2 run homer.
3-2 Astros

I’m sorry. I like the guy, but he’s terrible.

... as the K-State CF against Texas on that fly ball. Weird parallel universe.

Tie game.

I feel like Bourn stole Matsui’s mojo.

PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER FOR THE PUMA! :p

with a broken-bat RBI single.

almost does it again, pulls it just foul.

Tejada and Berkman!

Berkman has 10 steals now!

still has a chance to keep his quality start if he can be effective from here on out.

Bottom of the 6th, Pirates get a double and a single and score 1 run, tying the game.
4-4
Inning is over now, but tied.

Quality start is gone. ERA is up to 6.16 after giving up another hit to the pitcher, an RBI single.
Astros lead 5-4

Far, high double off the left field wall. :)

gets a hit? Whhhhaaaa?
Wiggles to third.

5-4

4 steals today for the team :p

at Carlos stealing. 3/3 this year!

Has some wheels!

2 out

Make that three out – Towles grounded to short.

eh…....

Complete offensive buzzkill.

....now they have 2 ducks on the pond w/ no outs. Bullshit.

Go back to Round Rock.

Maybe it is time to pull him now?

to Round Rock.

....for Austin out of his pocket as he walked up to the mound.

We’ll be lucky if we are only behind by one.
And we’ll have to face one of the best bullpens in the game.
Thanks, Nieve.

Right after I stuck up for you.

Soriano makes an error in the bottom of the ninth. Pirates score and tie it up. They will be going into extras again thanks to Alfonso there. :p

That took the fun out of this game.

On the bright side, Astros have four more innings to make up three run deficit.

by the home umpire now?

Nice hit by Loretta Lynn.

....that Tejada NEVER swings at the first pitch.

lame lame lame lame

Astros concede.

Still two men on; and no outs for Philly in the 7th

But there is one out!!!

Nieve sucks.
Villareal sucks.
Geary on the DL
Wright looked good at the beginning of the year, but now he sucks too.

That leaves us with three reliable relivers: Byrdeck (sp?), Brocail and Valverde.

We didn’t realize how good Chris Sampson was. Phillies still batting. Crowd leaving.

After possibly the two most memorable games of the year, we get blown out because our middle relievers are disgustingly terrible.

in 1.2 innings.

Cubs lost in extras again. At least we won’t fall a game back from them. Now let’s see how the Cards do.

Coop thinks Villareal will work stuff out if he can just pitch for an extended period of time. May as well do it now.

1-2-3 inning for like the first time in forever.

is still only a loss in the standings. Maybe with two days and a few hours to think about it, the Astros will be fired-up for St Louis Tuesday.

Cassel called up, after today’s loss.

I went to bed pretty much conceding this game just by looking at the pitching match-up but low and behold I see we kind of lit up Hamels only to see our middle relief blow the game. Well…that sucks! Nieve sent down, eh?! OK, good…Borkowski should be next. Anyway, a much needed day off, the Cubs and the Cards both lost today and then we go into St. Loius for a 3 game series starting on Tuesday. Hopefully, the real ROY Oswalt will return on the road trip. We need him.

Go Stros!

SeoulStro