Los Angeles Dodgers at Houston Astros, 7:05 PM CDT

Dodgers scrap out a run in the top of the first.

Lance Berkman tied it in the bottom half with a homerun.

Lance wlaked. Carlos Lee hit a bloop single (credited as a double) to center .The ball bounced away from the centerfielder,. Lance kept running to third. He slid on the far outside of the base, barely eluding the tag.

Intentionally walked. :p
He prolly would have driven in a run since he would have likely grounded out and Berkman was on third. (Lee on second)

Loretta with bases loaded.

Berkman scores

Singled – Two runs scored

first and third, nobody out

two sharply hit balls that might have been fielded for outs by better defensive players at LF and SS?

dies on the warning track.

last time he had to come in for the sinking liner that managed to get down. Similar play on a broken bat fly, this time, but it hung up longer. I think the CF was initially fooled by the swing and took a step back, but managed to recover.

HBP and two hits, reached base all 3 times.

and then proceeds to humiliate the next two batters. 9 K’s thru 6.

c’mon Roy, good time for a base hit.

Looks like an injury of some sort

went out to the mound to warmup, and then something happened and Coop and the trainers came out.

Roy’s leaving the game.

video from the clubhouse when he was told before the game about some kid that supposedly punched 27000 ballots for lance.

a game that felt secure now seems in jeopardy.

it really sucks because he was so good tonight. You’d like to see him push a start like tonight to see how far he could go. Still, safety first.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080630&content_id=3035452&vkey=news_hou&fext=.jsp&c_id=hou&partnerId=rss_hou

at least, most of the time.

Cooper chalked it up to Bourn’s lack of experience and said he did not even have to say anything to his center fielder. Left fielder Carlos Lee took care of that.

“Lee said, ‘You don’t want to do that all the time,’” Bourn said. “That’s the kind of team we have. When you have a good team, the team polices itself. The veterans come to you.”

http://blogs.chron.com/baseballblog/archives/2008/06/astros_fans_del.html

From Ortiz:

Some of you have noticed that the Astros tend to give each other imaginary high fives at times. The gesture looks similar to the hand sign Baylor Bears make, although the fingers are extended more dramatically and the right arm is held high while swaying back and forth.

It took a while, but most of the players now realize that they’re shining imaginary spotlights on each other as a way to praise great plays. Some, including Hunter Pence, however, thought it was just a long distance high five until I started asking about it.

It may sound silly to outsiders, but the gesture is a way for the Astros to bond and support each other.

exclamation point

on a ball from Puma hit into the hole between 2nd and 1st

Loretta made a nice turn right before getting dumped by the runner coming into 2nd.

Pence dove, got a glove on it, but dropped it. runners at 1st and 3rd w/ 2 out. Marlo comes in for Sampson.

inning over. astros lead 4-1

Should Pitchers wear some sort of helmut?

havent heard that he isn’t available. brocail is supposedly on for ermergencies only.

Pirates lose (to Reds)

Number 22 i believe.

Valverde not happy with at least one of the calls.

They should win 12-1

but it trickles behind the mound for an infield hit.

valverde got a nice call on an inside strike

for not stopping in his stretch. Instead of a K on the batter, it’s 2-2, 1 out and a man on 2nd.

JD says it was a bad call and I agree. On the replay it looked like he actually did stop, but it was v. quick.

Valverde got called for that at the game I went to v. the Yankees.

for not stopping in his stretch. Instead of a K on the batter, it’s 2-2, 1 out and a man on 2nd.

JD says it was a bad call and I agree. On the replay it looked like he actually did stop, but it was v. quick.

Valverde got called for that at the game I went to v. the Yankees.

so it’s not a strikeout pitch; and the runner goes to second.

man on 2nd.

Such bullshit. Umpires are tards.

to get the lead down to 1

Oswalt the win.

Astros Win!

Looked easy

why do they even bother?

per ace reporter JD after the game

hip abductor (sp?) strain
day to day