Houston Astros at Pittsburgh Pirates, May 31, 2009 12:35 PM CDT

so ill put stros here

Maysonet
Tejada
Pence
Lee
Berkman
Michael
Kepp
Q
Hampton…

first of all, michaels should never be batting sixth…

if i were Coop i woulda went – Maysonet, Kepp, Pence, Lee, Berkman, Tejada, Michael, Q, hampton…

Kepp can get on base and Tejada can drive them in…coulda went kepp 6 and tejada 2 as both get on base and can drive players in…michaels should not be batting 6!!!

lets c how maysonet does!

I consider Maholm and Hampton to be similar type LH pitchers. Maholm is younger, though. The Astros normally have trouble with Maholm.

That makes you wonder if something bad is wrong with Hampton. When Hampton gives up long flies, he is doing something wrong.

with a bouncing grounder up the middle.

Since I didn’t know what that is…I had to google it. Here is the Wikipedia version…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierogi

Apparently what they at PNC is filled with potato, since JD said he normally likes potato food.

that’s not good, Lance.

Sidearm throw to first while moving toward left looked smooth (but difficult)

He has shown good range and ability to turn the DP at 2d base.

second hit of the day

another above average day for Maysonet

He has been getting virtually nothing but groundballs since then. Deshais says the outfielders are the like T-ball kids sent to the outfield who spend their time picking petunias.

That time Michaels drove the RFer to the wall to catch his shot.

than Jason Smith.

He could be our pinch hitter

Maysonet singled

Edwin continues to shine.

moves to third on wild pitch (or passed ball)

on Trejada’s bloop single

interesting

Hampton fielded the ball and somehow seemingly threw it away. But Berkman caught it on a bounce and for an instant had his foot on the bag as he grabbed the ball far to the foul side of the bag.

Hampton’s throw was probabaly eight feet off to the dugout side of0 first . Berkman adjusted his body and stretched to make the catch (and did not ahe much time to do alll this) .

TheTV guys called the play as the ball goes into right field before they realized Lance caught it

Except for the lead off man, Hampton had a great outing. (and he scored the go-ahead run)

wild pitch strike out by Hawkins. Quintero retrieved it near base of screen but overthrew it to Berkman, who made a great save for the out. Not sure how he did it.

Quintero’s throwing has been inaccurate since he returned from DL. He also had errant throws in RR on his rehab. Makes me wonder if his shoulder is totally good.

Third strike goes to the backstop . By the time Quintero gets to the backstop (Ball stopped there) , he hurried his throw to first . Berkman stretched high and higher and caught the ball

but ump calls him safe ! Boo

nice, calm, methodical win.

if we can get any sort of consistency from them, along with the dominating Wandy and Oswalt gets healthy, we’ll be ok.