Milwaukee Brewers at Houston Astros, 6:05 PM CDT
Milwaukee Brewers at Houston Astros, May 3, 2008 6:05 PM CDT
Anyone think the Astros can repeat their 3-peat from last night of Tejada, Berkman and Lee all going back to back to back with jacks to push the Astros ahead of the Brewers in what ended up being a 7-4 victory. Roy Oswalt wasn't stellar by any means yesterday, but managed to go 6 innings and only leave the game with the lead. I'll take that any day from any starter. The pen was quite good last night with Geary, Brocail and Valverde all pitching shut out ball to give the Astros their 14th win of the season.
The Astros send Brandon Backe to the hill tonight to face Manny Para of the Brewers. It looks like tonight could be a slug fest with both pitchers having high 4 ERA's. Last time out, Backe went just 5 innings and gave up 4 ER and earned the loss, while Parra went 5 1/3 innings while only giving up 2 runs, but earned a no decision.
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weeks with a lead off homer...
Backe isn’t sharp early. gives up a a single to Cameron, but gets a DP from Braun and a grounder to 1st from Fielder.
Lee walks, bases loaded for Pence
Parra appears to have good breaking pitches, which could be a problem for Pence.
Lots of traffic on the bases for backe...
in the 2d, but he escapes thanks to a DP started by Wig-man, and the pitcher batting 8th..
Bourn K's for 2d time
memo to Cooper: Bourrn cannot hit LHP..
Matsui walks and goes to 3d on bloop single by Tejada.
berkman with a ground out to 2d.
Matsui scores. Ball looked like possible DP, but it was too slow and/or Hardy wasn’t quick enough, so that Berkman easily beat rerturn throw.
Brewers unhappy with home plate ump.
Backe got a called strike on inside curveball, and Braun complained. Fielder was easily thrown out…he didn’t run…on a ball hit in front of plate. Fielder tried to tell ump that he wrong and it was foul…Yost chimed in too.
Now Backe gets out of inning with a flyout to Pence.
1-1 tie game.
These are supposed to be the two..
better hitting teams in the national league, aren’t they? :p
by entropic soul on May 3, 2008 7:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Backe gets out of jam.
Walked Hardy and Parra, the pitcher, gets a hit. But he got a pop up and long fly out to LF to get out of inning.
BACKE WITH SOLO HOMER!!!!
Entropic, you were wrong. But I would have given Backe a better chance than Bourn.
BOURN HOME RUN
I got to insult those two more often!!!
by entropic soul on May 3, 2008 7:31 PM CDT up reply actions
Bourn with homer!!!!!!!!
I was wrong about his chances too. Back to back homers for second consecutive day.
Backe & Bourn
Killer B’s
Astros fan for life
by Joe in Birmingham on May 3, 2008 7:33 PM CDT reply actions
Matsui steals!
Tejada follows with a double off the left field wall!
4 consecutive hits! 3 runs. no outs!
Passed ball (or wild pitch)
Tejada scores from third. Berkman to second. Lee still batting.
Astros 5-1
Backe still celebrating home run?
He walks the first 2 batters withouut a strike. then gets Fielder on a flyball.
Miggy with pop to CF, dropped by shortstop,
but Hardy throws to 2d and matsui beats it and then tthrow to 3d beats Bourn. Berkman hits into DP to end promising inning.
yeah, I didn't see his reaction at 2d well enough...
to place any blame on him. Unless he hesitated or delayed after the ball was dropped, he just had a tough situation.
Villareal with good 1-2-3 seventh inning.
Nice running catch by Matsui in short RF….between charging Berkman and Pence…was key play.
Astros Win 6-2
Go for the sweep on Sunday
Astros fan for life
by Joe in Birmingham on May 3, 2008 9:15 PM CDT reply actions
valverde gets a 1-2-3 ninth inning.....
but it wasn’t as easy to watch as it sounds. he went 3-0 and 3-1 on the first two hitters. Brewers’ game plan was just to “take pitches” but once he made strikes and the hitters had to take swings, he got his outs. All’s well that ends well.

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