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

is probably the best offensive lineup they can muster. should be a good test for Wandy tonight. good game tonight.

Two teams no one thought would be any good, but are. :)

single, error and Pujols will be walked to load bases.

Why?

Bases still loaded with no outs.

Already 3-0 Cards.

Once this year .. and he usually goes 7+ innings.

The Astros need every run they can get with Wainwright on the mound.

Come on Astros! Stop sucking!

Sammy Sosa says he plans to retire in 2009.

Note to Sammy: You’ve been retired.

He has struck out 3 of the past 4 batters (Berkman, Pence, Wigginton)

c’mon wandy, that’s a mental lapse.

wainwright is going strong right now

It’s onty the fifth inning.

Will the Astros keep it close enough to come back in the 7th, 8th and 9th?

Wandy won’t get the win if Astros come back. He ’s pulled in the fifth with one out in the fifth.

with their record, but I think this game is a preview of what a lot of playoff games would look like, if by some miracle we make it this year. Our pitching staff isn’t strong enough and the level of opposing pitching is going to be a lot better than what we’ve been beating up on this month.

two on the inside corner at the knees looked pretty good

that song is horrific. please never never play that again. geez, that’s just pathetic.

fox just showed it from between the innings.

put up or shut time

Didn’t put up much of a fight tonight.

not gonna win ‘em all, and this was the matchup in this series that looked the most ominous. Wandy got his pitch count up in the 90s and looked good at times. the rbi hits to Molina and Izturis (only three ER in the game), he had both of them 0-2 and just couldn’t put them away, both fouling off several pitches before delivering a knock. hopefully some sharpness to be able to throw a good out pitch will come back in time.

on the other side, Wainright is their ace for a reason. i’m not going to lose much sleep over this one. we need Roy to step up tonight and find his groove, so we can win the series though. it’d be nice to come away with at least four on this road trip, but this one would be big for us to keep up with the Joneses in the Central. friggin’ Dodgers couldn’t hang on last night and let the Cubbies sweep in 10 innings. flipped over to that game a couple of times, and can I just say that Berman has no business doing MLB games? aweful. and how about maintaining the illusion of objectivity when the color guy sings “take me out to the ballgame” in the 7th, wearing a Cubs jersey and saying “it’s so great to be back”.

anyway, hopefully we’ll get ‘em tonight. go Astros!

They have gotten so bad so quickly…

After littlevisigoth’s account about the lack of objectivity, I suppose I’m glad. I would have hated it. However, you have to hand it to the Cubs….they are winning on the road in this series.