Washington Nationals at Houston Astros, 7:05 PM CDT

And continue the home winning streak.

starts the game by striking out the Nats lead off hitter. Nice start.

Bourn grounds out to third (Zimmerman) on four pitches. 1out.

good pick at deep 3d, but bad throw…bounced and Berrkman couldn’t hold it.

But DP bails him out on next play.

Who will have a breakout month of May. Michael Bourn, Hunter Pence, Jose Cruz Jr or Geoff Geary…

Cruz is a complete waste of a vote… even if he had a chance of turning this arund.. he’s a bench player and will get no shot at doing much other than pinch hitting(unless someone gets hurt… then he would still be a bench player behind Erstad).

And why Geary? What could he possibly do to be considered “Break Out”? He has a 1.93 ERA!!! If anything, he had a break out month of April! Why include him?

Staying hot!

Took the 3-1 pitch, which was low… he’s on his way to first as the umpire finally calls it a strike.

Late 2nd strike call on Pence… stupid umpire..

If you are going to call it a strike, don’t just sit there until Pence(who waited for the call) to start towards 1st to make the call… Call it instantly jerk.

LFer and CFer were scurrying around like they had no idea how to deal with the LF wall.

I probably will DVR the rest of the game.

gameday hung up on Lee’s at bat. Nice to know he doubled.

for Michael Bourn after Chacon hits a single to LF.

All about the lack of respect for Bourn—and that disrespect paid off for the Gnats

tired of hearing about the Wood 20 K night?

Pena drills a line drive at Tejada that Tejada gloves to his left just off the ground… it was one of those that you just want to get out of the way of and it’s in an awkward place… nice play anyways.

what?

Pirates all over the Giants tonight. 8-0 in the 5th inning.
The Cubs beating the Reds (who doesn’t?) 3-0 in the 6th.
The Brewers on the bottom side of a 3-0 score in the 6th as well.
The Cards just started their game with the Rockies and lead 1-0.

gives Matsui a double…I think.

Steals 2nd.

or what?

Two hits tonight already – scored 1 run first time he batted. RBI in his second.

Now he steals Second.

Practically the entire Nats team is batting below .230, individually.

hitting .220. Nice. :p

That’s one for each inning so far.

is about to get on my shit list with Angel Hernandez with this slow strike call.

Inning over.. our turn again. :p

I’m calling back to back to back homers! :p

Funny hearing JD yell that in the booth as Towles almost gets picked off.

The NL East… we’d be in 4th place
The NL West… we’d be in 3rd place
The AL East… we’d be tied for 4th place
The AL Central… we’d be in 2nd place
The AL West… we’d be in 3rd place

But we are in the NL Central and are in 4th place.

(only comparing records by adding Astros to division, does not count which teams we would theoretically face more often if in a different division)

Chacon strikes out his 5th in th 5th.

And scores Wily Mo Pena. Tie ballgame again. :(

We are now losing. 3-2.

to get the runner at home.

dude what is he good at? he doesn’t play d and he is swinging at garbage. why did we trade wheeler for him again?

what’s up with the barrage of sound effects they have been using? getting a bit tedious..

No bleeping Way!

One Berkman for each of his hits tonight

Another stolen base for Berkman—third this time

But he does walk and BIG PUMA steals another base!

Is doing it all! He is single-handedly been our offense over the last few games! We gotta get him home and tie this up!

Come on Stros!

SeoulStro

refuses to let us lose. Either that or he really wants the triple crown and MVP this year.

Come on!!!

4 for 4 with 1 RBI and 3 runs scored. And the game isn’t even over yet.

Let’s get it done!

Go Stros!

Brocail.. thanks.

Geez!

Go Stros!

who hit the go-ahead HR, now charges and dives to try and keep his 1-run lead.

Instead he misses it, and 2 runs score instead of 1. Astros lead 6-5!

after all

There is no stopping this freight train! Scores the winning run (if we win)!!

Not a big deal, but a little bit of a stink has been made about the Astros reliance on the long ball to score runs… not the case tonight.

Come on Valverde…let’s close this out and then I go and eat some lunch!

Go Stros!

SeoulStro

Valverde… :)

Flawless save…

What a nice win.

Player of the Game – Who else – Lance Berkman! Thanks for the play-by-play, off to eat some lunch! Have a good night all and see you tomorrow!

Go Stros! (over .500 now)

SeoulStro

Hey we have a winning record for the first time since last year. :p
Did we ever have a winning record last year? :p

in NL Central

Berkman may now be the only player in the top five for each triple crown catagory depending on how well some other players did today.

Based on the current numbers, he’d be 5th in hitting, 2nd in home runs and 2nd in RBIs.. but I’m sure those numbers have changed.

I’m was stuck working four stories up on the tail of the C-5… I got back to the office in time to hear us take the lead in the 8th, and Valverde secure the win. It was awesome.

passes Pujols for third place in NL OPS, with 1.159.

He’ no lower than fourth in the NL in the triple crown categories. He’s also tied for the league lead in doubles.

Astros also appear to be the only NL team with 3 players with 10+ doubles

Pretty exciting stuff, even before you consider the win streak, and Roy Oz going tomorrow.

Edge out the Rockies, 6-5, though. Too bad. :(