Houston Astros at Cincinnati Reds, 6:10 PM CDT

unfortuantely I’m going to a wedding…

KAAAAZZZZZZ

If Astros don’t strike out they hit a homerun so far

2 homeruns
3 strikeouts

good ratio

got so used to getting beat up by the pirates I forgot there could be other teams in the NL Central that suck worse

should be fun to watch.

edmonds hit 2 solo HR. pretty funny.

singles to lead off 2nd. Bourn up.

but his swings seem to be back like the old ways, not going the other way like he was before injury

out at 1st. runners advance. 2nd and 3rd, 1 out

swinging for the fences

don’t think I’ve seen that.

wow, that ball 2 looked gooood. got a break on that one.

2-0 to miggy

anyone know off the top of their head where we rate in RS compared to last year’s team?

1 out.

2 K’s for Wolf

(thinking of bad Wolf puns)

strikes out the side

to lead off 3rd.

leadoff man reaches for the 3rd straight time

K’s. both pitchers racking up strikeouts.

2 down.

Cueto w/ 6 K’s.

Wolf w/ 4 K?

2-0 after 2 1/2

Bill Brown is probably one of the few people would would actually refer to The Edge by his full name. funny

walks the first batter. sac bunt by pitcher. wolf airmails over Miggy.

1st and 3rd, no out

ball rolled to the wall. both runners score

runner at 3rd.

dribbler to the mound and a fly to shallow right keep the runner at 3rd for now.

2 run shot. 4-2 Reds

I was gone for only a few mintues and Reds score 4 runs.

I thought Matsui might have had another.

ground rule double to right. Q goes to 3rd. 2 out.

Miggy up again. now the popout to SS

but no structural damage. shut down for at least a week, but not as bad as it could have been.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080808&content_id=3275059&vkey=news_hou&fext=.jsp&c_id=hou&partnerId=rss_hou

no resurgence tonight

w/ 1 out

Carlos Lee hustles??

I hope you’ve all settled your accounts with the Lord, b/c the end is nigh

gimpy motion and all

2 on, no out

Miggy blew with the bases loaded, and in that inning Berkman hit a dinky infield grounder to ruin the inning.

phillips hit it deep, carlos jumped, it hit him in the glove and he just booted it.

dunn hits it off his hands, a little bloop right to the bag at 2nd.

phillips looked a little lost, went back to the bag, Miggy had to go around him to field the ball, which he did and then threw out Dunn at 1st.

Joe West called Phillips out for interference. It was a bad call, but we catch a break. Dunn at 1st. 1 out.

Has it come to that with Pence? That I’m happy when he doesn’t strike out?

they eventually signed LoDuca, so I doubt anything else will happen.

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2008/08/marlins-sign-lo.html

2 run jack.

wow that error really bites the reds in the ass.

didn’t see that one coming.

Pulled it out of his ass.

Hmm, I thought they’d have pulled him.

But game tied as runner on third scored

Lee made a nice jumping catch to snag it. Sampson continues to get flyballs.

but not this time. the hardest part of the cycle was left, anyway.

are dwindling

Sampson and Dunn are good friends, but Chris always seems to get the better of Dunn.

2 on, nobody out.

Wonder what option coop will take.

cross your fingers.

put this game away

and he popped up

Ack, that just wasn’t good.

Not good.

Can somebody tell me why I keep following Astros games even when I know most of the time that it’ll be a platter of suck?

That’s too many

struck out

:(

puma up.

could this be the moment?

center fielder almost caught it

Patterson may a valiant dive but ball rolled off his glove. That would have been horrifying if Patterson had robbed him.

off the mighty Coco Cordero

add on

2 run jack

Astros lead 9-4

9-5 astros

astros win!

2 down, 2 to go.

during the off-season….yet it was the Wade signing which drew the most scorn and ridicule from the blogosphere at the time. I think Dayne Perry called it the worst off-season move of the year by any GM (at the time). .280 BA, .342 OBP, .402 SLG 82% SB rate. That’s not bad. And better than I expected. People said that it would be impossible for Matsui to duplicate his numbers for the Rockies. Hmm…. he has a 1 point difference in his OPS, compared to when he played for Colorado last year. His OBP and SLG are virtually identical to last year.

I caught some of the game on the radio while driving to the wedding and to the reception and caught the post game wrap up afterwards… Sounds like some clutch hitting to me!