SWEEP!

(sarcasm)

And as I write that, Erstad fails to make a play at 1st base. Granted, it was a bullet right at him.

One of the biggest home crowds of the season, extra big city media coverage and Berkman and Matsui don’t play. It seems to me those two guy shoudd be in the lineup today. Why are they not playing?

when they get a chance to bat in a NL park and don’t get on base.

but Giambi walks to load the bases.

Oswalt walked him on 4 pitches, and clearly was pitching around him. By now, we should know that strategy is just asking for trouble.

A-Rod makes a tremendous play on Tejada’s grounder.

We usually have equal or more hits than the other team, but we’re constantly losing!

If Astros had been alert they could have thrown out Wang; he hurt himself and was limping to home plate. The cut off man had his back to the action and just lobbed the ball into the infield.

Even with Wang injured, I can’t see the Astros overcoming the Yankees’ bullpen.

Wright is working his 3d straight day…..I don’t know if that has anything to do with his lack of command.

It won’t look like it from the score, but Oswalt actually pitched pretty well. He had a lot of bad luck, some poor calls by the plate umpire….but he was throwing his risinig fastball better than I’ve seen it all year.

I’m speechless.

Imagine what the Red Sox are going to do to us.

Watching Law and order with the wife at around 12:30PM… Next thing I know, I wake up and the game is in the 8th and the Astros are down either 11-0 or 13 to nothing… I put the pillow back over my head and went back to sleep for about 20 minutes.. I intended on watching the game and coming here to chat with you fine folks… but I slept through the game.. Lucky me!

What a pathetic series… our best pitcher by far was the pitcher we had the least amount of faith in(Chacon). Roy doesn’t look to have been too terrible today, but what terrible outing by Wright… sheesh. Well, at least tomorrow is an off day.

From the HC:

“You’ve got one of the hottest hitters in baseball not playing,” Oswalt said. “Ty Wigginton is swinging the bat unbelievable. Matsui gets on and works the count for us. I’m not taking anything away from the other guys, but when your regulars aren’t in it seems like the intensity isn’t as high.”

I remember being frustrated with Garner for never settling on a regular lineup, for platooning way too much and not playing Scott enough, for seeming to rely on intuitions that defied all statistics, and for what seemed to be poor selections from the bullpen at crucial points in games. But there weren’t that many times that I thought that Garner’s decisions were a huge contributor to our losses.

Not so this year. The terrible over-aggressive base running, the decisions to rest starters who don’t usually take rests, and a wide array of just strange moves in games. More than once Cooper has failed to pinch hit for the pitcher and then removed the pitcher after facing 1 batter in the next inning. I will admit that the base-running had me excited during the brief stretch, early on, when it was working. But we are getting caught way, way too much for Coop to be unwilling to make an adjustment.

After the Yankees beat up the Astros this weekend,can Drayton McLane find someone else to manage the team? Some good choices:

Former Oilers coach Bum Phillips.
Former Oilers and Gamblers coach Jack Pardee.
Former Rockets coach Rudy Tomjanovich, who guided Houston to 2 NBA titles.
Comets coach Van Chancellor, he guided the Comets to 4 WNBA titles.
Former Rockets coach Bill Fitch,he guided the Rockets to the ‘86 NBA Finals.
George H.W. Bush,former President of the United States,former standout at Yale and Astros fan.
Choices above would be better than the guy who ruined the franchise’s image after those horrible losses to the Yankees.