Pittsburgh Pirates at Houston Astros, 7:05 PM CDT

I said, “his 10.29 ERA leads one to believe that he won’t be any further help to the major league team this year.” At that time, I wasn’t expecting that Hernandez would get another call up to the Astros. I was wrong. Whether I was wrong about his inability to help the big league team this year….well, we will see tonight.

Should be fun game to watch as far as offense goes. :p

http://www.thelittlepumas.com/

Pirates have a man on in the minimum at bats.

Leaps and snares a liner over his head, much like we see Tejada do.

Let’s see what Bourn does. A repeat of the top of the first inning?

Barely safe but he makes it!

Small ball at it’s finest.. IF hit followed by a steal at 2nd

“I’m committed to driving in runs”

in the first inning.

two outs that should have been made, plus walking Bourn

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Dammit.

Ran across this fan post from the A’s blog, basically proposing they swap all their major league trade pieces (Mark Ellis, Huston Street, Duscherer, et. al.) to the Cardinals for Colby Rasmus.

Athletic’s Nation

For the most part, I think it’s a pipe dream, because of how highly the Cards prize Rasmus and because it’s one of those quantity for quality trades, but it’s fun to think about getting Rasmus out of the division. I have a feeling I’m going to be hating that guy for years to come. Also, it’s true that the Cards may be looking at a window w/ Carpenter and Pujols and there’s a v. small chance they might go for broke and try to make the WS the next couple of years. Maybe their record this year might convince them to gamble.

high degree of difficulty. the Russian judge scores it a 9

no runs score. still 0-0.

then starts the next batter 2-0.

Gets the count to 3-2 – two outs

Got the fly out to deep right field.

Surprised it took so long.

First the bad throw to Tejada allowing the runner to be at second.

Then a lapse of concentration m,ae him late in throwqing to catcher Asumus and then throw off to the left just enough that the runner scored.

They might score more.

Not quite. A double instead.

just imagine if him and berkman would get hot at the same time. that would be fun to watch.

Lee, singles to score Matsui

He seemed to be running kinda slow on his last two ground outs. He doesn’t usually do that.

To let Pence reach.. at least I’m assuming it is

I was just going to pop over to baseball reference and check Puma’s stats for the last few weeks, but the chron guy beat me to it.

Since July 1:
50 AB, 10 hits (.200 BA)
.375 OBP
3 2B, 0 3B, 0 HR
.260 Slugging
5 RBI in 14 starts, one pinch-hit appearances and today’s limited start.

amazing to have a .375 OBP w/ only a .200 BA, but that’s what a good eye and lots of respect will get you.

SLG is way down, since he’s only had a couple doubles and no HR.

Told ya to wait, dude.

RBI double!!! Astros up 2-0

on Bradley J. Ausmus!

player of the game after all.

I thought he was taught to slede feet first after his big injury last year.

Pence wasn’t even in line with the ball.

Lead off double and then a single past a diving Puma

11 more to go for the 15

w/ that swipe tag on the errant throw

stops the ball with his thigh/calf, and then throws out the lead runner at 1st.

Looked like it hurt

no outs for Lee.. Time to get aht 15+/-

Dedicated to driving in runs!
Take that, All Star game!

crushed that one off the crawford boxes wall

he was standing between home and the dugout backing up the play. that would have added insult to injury i guess.

First pitch out.

we’re in trouble if carlos is making calls on the basepaths.

lol, that was funny. he’s definitely a likeable guy

sounds like half our old roster is there. we could probably DOMINATE!

... has aged well.

3-2 top 9th

Geary takes over.

American League Player of the Week

he’s their closer?

ump took a pitch right off the hand

Bottom of the ninth
Pujols batting with two outs and two men on base –
score tied 3-3

Albert flies to center

Going to extra innings

puma up w/ 1 out.

pitching change

or pitching change?

gotta get PIP working

It looks like the “under” votes will be right.

two on for bucs, two out

glaus doubled in the bot. 10th, but other than that, 3 groundouts.

against D-Backs

he would be truly horrible the past few months.

as it is, he’s merely putrid

two outs, loretta up.

if I’m not mistaken, the MIL-STL game would have started at the same time as us (it was in STL) and they played 10 innings. we’re barely done w/ 7.

bucs runner breaks for 2nd, stops and goes back, ausmus throw goes between matsui and tejada into cf. luckily, runner stayed at 1st.

“an exciting no-play” as jd put it.

1st and 3rd w/ 2 out. brocail pitching

RJ allowed 2 hit, 0 runs. 4 K’s thru 6
Harden 0 hit, 0 run, 8 K’s thru 5.5

erstad in LF

3-4-5 due up for bucs against Papa Grande.

I see Valverde is in. So Hernandez had a good game? Pirates can score a lot of runs.

Brew/Cards was stressful but we won.

glad it was Erstad and not lee. Lee probably gets to the hard hit liner, but makes it interesting.

tie game

tie game

b/c I wouldn’t really have much confidence in Valverde if we were playing important games.

Emotionally I put this game in the win column several innings ago.

Now maybe extra innings coming up

and Carlos Lee out of the game.

pirates take the lead. 5-3

he looked slow, waving as that single bounced thru the hole.

Terrible night for Valverde. He retired one batter of the 7 he faced.

game has descended into farce

possible inside-the-park HR, depending on the scoring

Fitting for this game

what is that? 9-3

anybody want to move down?

The line on Jose Valverde (hide the children’s eyes)

1/3 IP, 5 H, 6 R, 6 ER, BB, 2 HR

starts all three games in the cubs series – 0 hits
PH in the 9th – bloop hit into LF

Pitiful