Houston Astros at Pittsburgh Pirates, 6:05 PM CDT

Erstad and Loretta both get out followed by a Berkman walk and a Lee single moving Berkman to 3rd.

Retires the side in his half of the inning.

Cubs get Rich Harden and another solid pitcher for four questionable players. Why would the A’s do this deal?

Cooper is still wanting to rest some of his pitcher…

Should we turn the game off now?

in the 2nd with 2 outs, bringing Backe up.

to get to Bourn. :p

2 on, 1 out.

Snell is about to hit a bomb! :p

Or strike out looking. :p

:p

or at least rain delayed… The clouds around the stadium in Pittsburgh look pretty bad.

Tejada almost had a homer there.

unfortunately it went foul :(

Huntah!!!!! DEEP Center field shot

I thought that was a shallow high fly out off the bat.

follows up the big fly with a single of his own… Pirates getting someone active in the bullpen(or so JD says)

Switch Wiggy and Pence around and that’s a two run homer. :p

3 Astros pitchers to start an All Star game

Maybe to try and get into the 5th inning sooner

to vote for Carlos Lee for the All-Star game.

I cannot tell how long this rain will last. The heaviest part will pass through fairly quickly if I read the Weather.com radar right. But there’s a large green area behind the initial front. I can’t tell if that’s continous rain or not. If it’s all rain, it’ll be hours.

2 IP, 0 H, 2 BB, 3K

2 hour rain delay…

Time to go watch a movie with the wife.

TTFN

After this long a delay some managers would say the delay was so long Backe should not continue to pitch. In that case, maybe a pinch hitter is in order.

On the other hand, Astros pitching is thin now and Astros may be better served letting Backe continue.

What’s the right call?

Borkowski is coming in to pitch, but Backe is going to bat in his spot(leading off the inning).

7.04 ERA in 5 games.

gives up a double to Jason Bay for the 1st hitter he faces.

TJ Beam’s bat is red….

“I don’t know if I ever liked one of my teammates enough to sit at a computer for an hour and vote for them for the All Star Team”

“TJ Beam could be part of our all spirits team”

for his 3rd walk of the game and the Carlos Lee goes YARD for a 2 run home run! Line drive shot to left field… It’sa nice!

6 IP, 2 ER to earn a win for the Brewers tonight

HR to right field off Borkowski

Astros up 3-1

Reds lost (to Cubs)

1st batter grounds out to Wigginton who makes a nice diving play to his left and throws out Michaels for out 2 in the inning.

There are probably about 200 -300 fans in the park right now. They should all move up to the front row seats.

Erstad, Loretta, Berkman, Lee and Tejada.
Better than 3 up, 3 down I suppose.

Is he signed for next season? Cause if not, he needs to be.

1-1 with 3 walks tonight.

Ball, Wild Pitch, Ball, Intent Ball

Erstad flies out to Jason Bay though. Another running catch by Bay. Getting tired of that dude.

LaRoche. Solo shot.
3-2 Astros.

Bases loaded on a hit batsman, single and walk with 2 outs.

to see the astros game going at midnight.

4-3 Pirates.

I want to see this game go until 3 am. :p

The other day, Brocail got himself in some trouble. Coop called in Valverde to save his ass. It didn’t work and we lost.

Today, Brocail gets himself in some trouble. Coop does not call in Valverde to save his ass. It doesn’t work and we (will) lose.

What can you do?

He strikes out the next batter.

Get a chance to save the day… after leading for about 6 hours. The astros are now losing.

Astros want to go home.

Astros REALLY want to go home.

Doens’t want to go home.
Tejada will take care of that, though.

Tejada must have been ordered to not swing on the ifrst pitch cause he doesn’t. And Bourn steals second. So he swings on the second pitch and grounds out TO THE PITCHER.
Nice work guys.

4-3 Pirates.

this seems like 2007 repeat

what could I have been thinking?

I checked the chron.com article, and Brocail complains that he hasn’t broke 90 on his FB in 2 weeks. I wonder if overwork is starting to take its effect?