by Oswalt’s preference for Ausmus as his personal catcher? I’m not exactly worried by it, but I certainly hope that Towles catches Oswalt a few times this season, at least. Lots of time left for that to happen, obviously.

You can really tell when Roy has his stuff by seeing batters swing ahead of his curveball and when the curveball is low..

1st batter Lopez, struck out way ahead of a Roy O curveball low… so I guess that’s a good sign..

WTF?

see Astros down 2-0 with Roy O still pitching in the top of the first.

Damn. He’ll have to make an out eventually…

Is Roy pissed or something? He’s done nothing but strike out people for all four of his outs so far.

The guy with 6 strike outs after 2 would not be the guy losing the game.

or Guzman had it stick to his glove?

don’t know if anyone else is watching on FSN-SW HD – or trying to, rather… but it’s really aggravating that they have their feeds switched – they are showing the FSN-SOUTH HD game – Atlanta vs. San Diego (when it clearly says Hou vs. Wash in the guide) ... sorry.. had to vent… someone fix it please…

Roy’s change up was way too hittable, right in the hitting zone.

Nooo! Ends the strike out streak at 7.

to hit them toward the left side, and not toward 1st base.

how fun!

of the highlights from Kerry Wood’s 20 K game ten years ago. Safe to say that his strike zone was a little wider than Roy’s today. I think he got robbed on that curveball for ball 4.

hitting streak comes to an end.

HR Berkman

PUMA STYLE!

What a way to tie the franchise record for consecutive hits.

they say it ties club record.

the other thing of note – he’s hitting right handed tonight.. .he’s just on a tear.

Is this the most impressive week we’ve ever seen from one hitter?

yes! just announced! astros traded stephen randolph to phillies for player to be named later.

Didn’t even move… pretty sure he could have gotten out of the way of it…

WHAT THE HELL!!!

smart thinking!
Brad “Can’t possibly GIDP now” Ausmus to bat now.

On Ausmus.. looked low and outside to me…

but damn, so good to see ausmus on FIRE

2 outs with runners on 2nd and 3rd.

Words can’t describe the tear he’s on now! He’s on FIRE!

Got a sort of observation to make and maybe those of you who watch the games regularly can chime in and agree or disagree but seeing that I don’t watch the games live and only see the highlights, Berkman looks much more confident/serious/professional this year. I don’t know exactly what it is but he is reminding me of Bagwell out there and like someone mentioned before, it’s like he is leading by example! Anyway, awesome to see!

Go Stros!

SeoulStro

2-run double!

gotta cover that bag, boy! ;)

Stros take the lead!

Keep adding on!

because old man Perez can’t cover 1st base.

take a look at this – Berkman through 5/6/07 vs 5/6/08 (not including today’s stats, in other words)

2007
.277 AVG / .433 OBP / .347 SLG / 2 HR / 15 RBI / 1 2B / 29 BB / 1 SB

2008
.353. AVG / .428 OBP / .731 SLG / 10 HR / 32 RBI / 13 2B / 17 BB / 6 SB

Cubs lost to the Reds today, 9-0 (as previously mentioned)
Pirates up on the Giants in the 8th, 2-0
Brewers losing to the Marlins in the 8th, 6-2
Cards winning against the Rockies in the 3rd. 2-0

Doesn’t break the club record. :(

how many straight?

tie game.

WTF, Zimmerman?

with a pretty high ERA. Maybe this will work out better for us.

he is another soft tossing llefty. At one time a good starting pitcher I had him on my fantasy team 2 years ago.

Bunt for the squeeze goes foul!

DO SOMETHING OSWALT! HIT A HOME RUN! :p

How can he swing at that 3-1?

moved down, replaced in the order or something…the guy never gets on base. UGH!

Come on Stros!

What a waste of 2 men on, no outs.

especially a deceptive LHer like O’Conner. I would have PH with Loretta and then put Erstad in CF.

Lee did his usual nonchalant chase in LF.

outfield assist getting pena at home!

a freight train called Pena.

Did Ausmus get run over by Pena?

Man, Roy, barely got out of that inning!

Let’s go Astros!

Once again, the famous swipe tag. Good throw from Bourn.

do we lead the majors in steals??

not quite the automatic RBI machine he was last year.

but that was bound to come down. now is a bad time for it.

how many consecutive outings does it take for brocail’s arm to fall off?

but he does.

grounder by Milledge to tejada.

matsui .. tejada .. berkman … i smell another final AB win…

Now he is consistent in the centerfield and is almost the forgotten man. Twice tonight Instead of thinking “Michael Bourn coming to bat” I thought “here’s the Automatic Out”

Astros score in the ninth to win.

here we go!

close play at 2d.

which makes the Berkman walk automatic. now the steal is problematic…who knows?

Lee and Pence!

Let’s get this done!

Go Stros!

Nats have to be thinking DP and their outgoing pitcher looks like a groundball machine

split second reaction to get to third.

And some people didn’t like the signing

just a sac fly!

Nice work, Carlos!

Milledge dropped it. Don’t know if he gave up because he knew runner would score.

‘STROS STYLE!

I think I give the nod to Matsui here. Getting 1st to 3rd without a hit is huge.

key play was his steal and heads-up baserunning to take 3rd on the wild pitch. excellent game!!

Another winner! Great going Stros!

Thanks guys for the play-by-play! Going for lunch now (happily, I might add!)

Way to go Astros!

SeoulStro

....I sure hope we stay on the winning side of all these one-run games we’ve been playing this year.

Astros win

and Cubs, Brewers and Cardinals all lose!