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Houston Astros at Baltimore Orioles, 6:05 PM CDT

Houston Astros @ Baltimore Orioles



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3 game series vs Orioles @ Oriole Park at Camden Yards

Tue 06/17 WP: Jim Johnson (2 - 2)
SV: George Sherrill
LP: Doug Brocail (2 - 2)
5 - 6 loss
Wed 06/18 WP: Chad Bradford (3 - 2)
LP: Jose Valverde (4 - 2)
1 - 2 loss

Houston Astros Red-star
@ Baltimore Orioles Red-star

Thursday, Jun 19, 2008, 6:05 PM CDT
Oriole Park at Camden Yards

Shawn Chacon vs Brian Burres

Partly cloudy. Winds blowing from left to right field at 5-10 m.p.h. Game Time temperature: Around 75.

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W-LGGSCGSHOSVBSIPHRERHRBBKERAWHIP
2008 - Shawn Chacon 2-2 14 14 0 0 0 0 80.2 80 46 42 14 37 53 4.69 1.45


W-LGGSCGSHOSVBSIPHRERHRBBKERAWHIP
2008 - Brian Burres 5-5 14 13 0 0 0 0 75.0 89 46 44 10 25 36 5.28 1.52



The Astros are coming off 2 straight games in which the closer earned the loss... tough way to lose when your team has lost 9 of their last 10 and 7 straight. 

Astros look to avoid their 2nd straight sweep as they take on the O's at 6:05 PM.

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1st Inning

Bourn bunts to get on, Matsui strikes out after several checks at 1st base, Miggy flies out, Bourn steals second, Berkman singles and drives in Bourn. Lee strikes out.

Astros 1-0.

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 6:30 PM CDT   0 recs

Pence leads off the 2d with a HR....

and after 1 inning, Chacon is working on a no hitter. ;)

by clack on Jun 19, 2008 6:32 PM CDT   0 recs

2nd Inning

Pence hits a BOMB to left field on the third pitch, about twenty rows back. Even the Orioles announcers are impressed.

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 6:33 PM CDT   0 recs

Good job by Chacon to field thatt ball and make an accurate...

throw to 2d with a broken bat skimming the ground near him.

by clack on Jun 19, 2008 7:05 PM CDT   0 recs

If We Walk In Another Run...

...I’ll be very unhappy.

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 7:08 PM CDT   0 recs

Figures

Story of our lives.

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 7:09 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Chacon Walks One In

Bases still loaded, two outs, Luke Scott at the plate.

Astros 2, Orioles 1.

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 7:11 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Scott Flies Out

Bourn makes the catch. 3rd inning over.

Chacon barely makes it out of there alive.

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 7:12 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Announcers Still Impressed With Berkman's HR Yesterday

Quote:

If Eutaw street wasn’t there, I think that ball would still be rolling.

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 7:14 PM CDT   0 recs

Ramon Hernandez Goes Yard

Liner to left field, two rows back. Tie game. 0 outs.

Astros 2, Orioles 2.

:(

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 7:20 PM CDT   0 recs

Alex Cintron Goes Yard

Deep to right center. Gameday says the distance to the wall was 400 ft.

Astros 2, Orioles 3.

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 7:24 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Homeruns

to their crap catcher and ss.

by mokulen on Jun 19, 2008 7:23 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Orioles' light hitting SS gets a HR....

The Astros bats have to get to work quickly. So far the Astros have been showing so little plate discipline that you would think they are minor leaguers flailing away at every pitched offered until they make weak contact.

by clack on Jun 19, 2008 7:23 PM CDT   0 recs

I expected

a lot more than 2 runs through 5 against this soft-tossing 5th starter. >:(

by mokulen on Jun 19, 2008 7:33 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Middle 5th

4th & 5th innings saw a mere seventeen pitches for Burres to retire Astros hitters.

That’s a smokin’ offense, I tell ya.

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 7:32 PM CDT   0 recs

Lift Chacon

Please Coop, please.

Runners at corners, bottom 5th, zero outs.

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 7:34 PM CDT   0 recs

whatever it is

chacon ain’t got it. how did that ball go for a double?

by lnewcomer on Jun 19, 2008 7:35 PM CDT   0 recs

Got Past Miggy

He timed the jump badly to field the ball and let it get past him. Hard liner by Millar.

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 7:36 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Astros 2, Orioles 4

Chacon still IN. One out, two runners on.

I don’t have my eye on the TV, listening to radio.

Is anybody warming up out there in the pen?

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 7:38 PM CDT   0 recs

two pitchers last I saw

batter before this one. should be ready soon if Chacon doesn’t get this guy …

just got the 2nd out on a slow roller to wigginton. runner stayed at 3rd. 2 down.

by lnewcomer on Jun 19, 2008 7:39 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Astros 2, Orioles 6

Payton singles to right. Still the 5th inning. Still two outs.

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 7:42 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Massacre Inning Finally Over

With Matsui catch.

Et tu, Chacon?

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 7:43 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

pathetic

Sickening. I don’t know how i can even watch this

by entropic soul on Jun 19, 2008 7:40 PM CDT   0 recs

I was afraid we might get this from Chacon

But the Astros need to pounce on guy’s like Burress.

by mokulen on Jun 19, 2008 7:44 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Total Meltdown

Pence was the right-handed Ted Williams in 2007.

by backstop8 on Jun 19, 2008 7:41 PM CDT   0 recs

2 runs through 5

Against a sucky pitcher. WOO! Be proud guys! You are about the be swept by the Orioles.

by entropic soul on Jun 19, 2008 7:43 PM CDT   0 recs

Woo!

Tejada finally gets a hit in Baltimore!

6-3 O’s

by entropic soul on Jun 19, 2008 7:45 PM CDT   0 recs

astros' hitters go up there with an interesting philosophy....

let’s see how quickly I can get my at bat over with.

Tejada hits a home run.

by clack on Jun 19, 2008 7:46 PM CDT   0 recs

There's the kind of luck we never get anymore.

That ball should have scooted away from the pitcher some more so Lee would have been safe.

by entropic soul on Jun 19, 2008 7:47 PM CDT   0 recs

Orioles With Proper Managing

Orioles manager takes out Burres now that there are runners on and he appears to be breaking down.

Somebody in the Astros dugout should be taking notes.

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 7:52 PM CDT   0 recs

Albers comes into game.

Ex-Astros have been critical in winning O’s games in this series.

by clack on Jun 19, 2008 7:54 PM CDT   0 recs

I wish

“Fat” Albers would have done that for us in the past, though I did always like him.

by Triple347 on Jun 19, 2008 8:03 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Good for a Single Loretta batting

Let’s see if he’s good for a single.

by entropic soul on Jun 19, 2008 7:56 PM CDT   0 recs

What a difference....Loretta gets a line drive, but Roberts jumps and catches it....

in the last inning, both Tejada and Matsui jumped on similar line drives and couldn’t reach them.

by clack on Jun 19, 2008 7:57 PM CDT   0 recs

for what it's worth

Matsui’s was WAY over his head… he jumped pretty damn high and didn’t really have a chance at it.

Go 'Stros!

by Stros Bro on Jun 19, 2008 8:03 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Chacon's comment on that ball Matsui tried to catch....

“Facing Jay Payton, I want to come right at him. I threw my fastball down and away, and Matsui missed that ball like, it looked to me, like a half-inch.”

Houston Chronicle article

by clack on Jun 20, 2008 8:22 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

being back in Baltimore seems to have negatively impacted Tejada's range

Seems like half a dozen balls in this series have been just out of his reach or over his glove.

Either that or the season is wearing him down

by lnewcomer on Jun 19, 2008 8:00 PM CDT   0 recs

Well...

I’m sure Tejada had something to do with that. Being it involved his old infield buddy, he probably suspected Roberts might try something.

The announcers mentioned something of a satisfied look on Tejada’s face after the Roberts out.

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 8:08 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

I see the voting on FSN for all time favorite Orioles player....

and I’m surprised Frank Robinson gets so few votes. Frank Robinson was a great, great hittter.

by clack on Jun 19, 2008 8:11 PM CDT   0 recs

When is he from? :D

I bet a lot of us Astros fans are new to baseball.

by mokulen on Jun 19, 2008 8:28 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

IF

If the Orioles sweep us, it will be their second sweep of the year. The first sweep was Seattle.

Nice company we’re keeping.

(Possibly. If we lose.)

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 8:12 PM CDT   0 recs

Mariners fired McLaren

In the for-what-it’s-worth department.

75% of the Earth's surface is covered by water. . . the other 25% by Michael Bourn

by Danyah on Jun 19, 2008 8:22 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Hadn't Heard That

Link.

Lead-in:

SEATTLE - The 2008 season began with high expectations and loads of promise for the Mariners after an 88-win campaign in 2007 and several high-profile acquisitions in the offseason. But that promise has transformed into nothing less than a nightmare through the first 72 games - a bad dream that finally was put to an end for manager John McLaren on Thursday morning, when the team announced he was relieved of his duties and replaced by bench coach Jim Riggleman as the team heads to Atlanta for a three-game series beginning Friday.

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 8:28 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

some guy on fox sports website had coop as a manager on the hot seat

main reasons being the major conflict between drayton’s expectations and the team he and wade put together. combine that w/ the recent sniping in the media by some players and coop’s seat is getting warm.

I said the other night on here that I don’t think Coop will be fired before this season is over, the main reason being that I don’t think Drayton will fire his friend Bud’s favorite manager after less than a full season. But Coop has been put in a bad situation and hasn’t handled it that well. It was setup for failure from the get go.

by lnewcomer on Jun 19, 2008 8:32 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Figures

Last interleague series sweep by Orioles was of…

the Astros.

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 8:24 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

banging head on desk ... slowly

former astros strike again.

7-3 orioles

by lnewcomer on Jun 19, 2008 8:21 PM CDT   0 recs

Deep Right Center, too

Why did we not renew that contract, again? He’s their friggin’ clean-up guy and is lighting us up.

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 8:22 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Huff got a crazy contract from Baltimore

and he was awful last year. Glad we didn’t sign him.

by mokulen on Jun 19, 2008 8:26 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

agreed on the huff signing

despite his heroics against our batting practice pitchers, he’s not the answer to our problems.

by lnewcomer on Jun 19, 2008 8:33 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

I'd rather have Huff than Wigginton.

He does make about $2 million/year more than Wiggy (3 X $20 M vs. 4.4 million / year for Wigginton). He didn’t have a great year last season, but he hit better (.280, .790 OPS) than the combo the Astros had over the course of the season at 3d.

Really, the big error was failing to offer Huff arbitration, since the Astros could have gotten a 1st round draft choice.

by clack on Jun 19, 2008 8:35 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Draft Picks

So, when you combine that with the failure to offer salary arb to Pettitte and Clemens along with the lost picks due to signing Woody, ...

Team of the future went somewhere else.

I have this bad feeling we should settle in for a long winter of battling the Reds and Pirates for “top of the central division cellar.”

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 8:39 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Huff

plays 1B and DH for the O’s. he’s a horrible fielding 3B, much worse than Wiggy.

by littlevisigoth on Jun 20, 2008 9:57 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

okay

should have looked it up before commenting. he did play 9 games at 3B this year, and only 5 at 1B, but he’s mostly a DH.

by littlevisigoth on Jun 20, 2008 10:00 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Tejada would have been safe if he didn't slide into 1st.

Tejada has a habit of doing that. It’s a bad habit.

Well, Huff hits a HR. Ex-Astros continue to nails in the Astros’ coffin in this series.

by clack on Jun 19, 2008 8:22 PM CDT   0 recs

Berkman 3 hits tonight

all singles, but it’s something

by lnewcomer on Jun 19, 2008 8:29 PM CDT   0 recs

Erased by Lee GIDP

Giddy-up, horsey.

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 8:30 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Baltimore Announcers Poking Fun at Lee

Quote:

His nickname is “El Caballo,” which means “The Horse.” But he runs more like… a mule.

by pel on Jun 19, 2008 8:31 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs