Houston Astros at St. Louis Cardinals, 7:15 PM CDT

....regarding the lack of parity in the schedules for the top 3 in the Comedy Central

Pushed out of the rotation by Wandy’s turn.
Or rather, Moehler’s good performance as a starter.
Read about it here.

eeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhh….

I wish Backe was starting . :p

I hate this dude. His ugly mug reminds me of an old nasty roommate I once had.

5 more hits please. :)

Runners advance though . :)

for Puma….

Knocks a hit into center. Bourn and Matsui score. :)
2-0 Astros. Pence to bat with men an 2nd and 3rd.

Lee gets us started with a 2 RBI single. Ankiel’s throw to home is wild, and Carlos gets to 2nd.

With a long infield single to score another.

I’ll be entirely pleased.

he managed to get picked off at first with a man on 2nd. Now Chacon has to lead off the next inning.

Chacon.. set those guys straight.

nonchalant fielding of chops to 1st base to a new level. Inning over.

but it mysteriously diied in front of warning track.

A hit for the PUMA!

that was probably ball 4, but it was close enough to have to protect the plate. nice job serving it the other way.

scores again!

Pence almost thrown out at 2nd… but got lucky.

Batting .280 now on the season… See!! I told you he would come around! :)

When I was with the Padres, I hit a homer off Nolan Ryan. I ran around the bases so fast I don’t think my feet touched the ground except to hit the bases. And when I got back to the dugout I told people not to shake my hand. I was kind of hoping Nolan would forget who hit it. The last thing you want is one of Ryan’s famous bowties next time you face him.

Link

Pujols goes deep against Chacon… oh well, just a solo shot.

when he’s throwing it 87 mph

You don’t run on him!!! Ankiel tried scoring from 2nd on a liner to Pence, but Pence guns his ass down at home..

Pence throws Ankiel out at home!

Pence!

Can’t stand those yuppy dou**ebags

he’s way too far over by 2nd

2 run jack! 7-1 ‘Stros!

hard to tell on the fence they have in left. that’s two weird bounces out there tonight.

7 ER in 4 1/3 so far.

And Carlos sent one to the fence in RF

Not quite far enough.
Pence doubles though. :)

Welcome back, HP

got an unlucky bounce off the stands down the line to keep it out of the corner

We wondered how the Astros would play after two days to think about that ugly loss Sunday to Philadephia. I’d say determined to right the ship us e teamn attitude. It’s easy to like this team.

intentionally walked.

Astros already up 7-1

My kind of inning.

Burma Shave

walks in a run. :)
Puma scores.. AGAIN!

That’s pathetic on Springer’s part.

I think he would have been safe

to actually feel good about an Adam Wainwright v. Wandy Rodriguez pitching matchup tomorrow night?

That’s fine Chacon… if you only give up 2 of those per every 5 innings we’ll be fine..

Puts us tied for the wild card withe Cardinals.

so Pujols leads off the next inning w/ no one on

per the unofficial scorer over at the chron

http://blogs.chron.com/unofficialscorer/2008/05/tejada_back_on_the_homer_train.html

chacon almost had a hit there. if the pitcher doesn’t get his glove on it I think that goes thru to center

seeing people wearing jackets and all huddled up in May.

first 5 hit game. he’s rolling right now.

went from .292 to .311 tonight

when it’s against the cards. it’d be nice to sweep them. we haven’t done that since that Sept. series against them several years ago I think.

good game.

I manage to keep forgetting how painfully slow Molina is. Pretty long grounder to short, and I couldn’t even see him on the screen yet as the throw was made to first.

GG Astros! A very nice win to start the series.

and I watch ESPN sportscenter now…..they are talkinig about the Mets win over the Marlins, and they are embarrassingly effusive in praise of Santana, calling him “supernatural\.” And then I realize that Chacon allowed fewer runs than Santana (3 RA).

Looper’s been dumbfoundingly dominating over us of late, so I was particularly excited to see us jump all over him in the first inning. And Chacon’s been a real nice surprise for us this year. That was his 8th “quality” start out of 11 starts this year and he’s only failed to get through the 6th inning twice. He and Backe have turned out to be pretty solid middle of the rotation guys. If Wandy can come back Wandilicious and the real Roy can ever show up, our rotation will actually be fairly decent.

And remember when Pence was stumbling out of the gate and people were questioning if the league had figured him out? Yeah, seems like a distant memory, huh?