Houston Astros at San Francisco Giants, Jul 3, 2009 9:15 PM CDT
by Evan Hochschild on Jul 3, 2009 8:34 PM CDT
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Houston Astros Friday, Jul 3, 2009, 9:15 PM CDT Felipe Paulino vs Ryan Sadowski Mostly clear. Game time temperature around 65.
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Here's a picture of the Giants' starting pitcher tonight, Ryan Sadowski:
Looks like your average, ordinary youngster who has made one career major league start, and a fine one at that.
Nope. First of all, Sadowski is a lucky man. Not only to be a professional baseball player, but to be alive, after having brain surgery in 2003. At 26, I'm sure that he appreciates his time in the bigs more than most guys his age.
This is a nice story, and obviously it's awesome that Sadowski recoupperated to the point where he is healthy enough not only to resume a normal life, but to be able to pitch.
For three hours tonight though, the Astros are going to do everything they can to make his life miserable. I guess it's all relative- someone who's gone through what Sadowski has probably has a different perspective on "miserable".
Our own youngster, Felipe Paulino, will take the hill tonight. Backing him will be this lineup (per Alyson Footer's Twitter page):
Bourn
Tejada
Berkman
Lee
Blum
Pence
Matsui
Quintero
Paulino
How many times this season have the Astros been at/above .500? If you answered once, grab a gold star/piece of chocolate/handfull of goldfish crackers.
I wanted to give props to Joe in Birmingham for coming through with a gamethread yesterday. DQ wasn't able to post one, and I was not near a computer, nor was my cell phone with me so I could respond to DQ's text asking for help posting one. My bad, ladies and gentlemen. Let's get a win tonight! - Evan
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50 degree temperature sounds good to me.
Paulino faces almost a sudden death feeling to his starts at this point. Cooper almost admitted (in a backhand way) that the last start by Paulino kept the Astros from sending him down. Now with a 6 starter rotation, several starters are playing to keep their spots after the ASB. So that’s pressure too.
I wish they'd just send moehler down
if he refuses it… meh.
Your friendly neighborhood Dream Shake mod.
I've been saying, "put Moehler in the bullpen" for a awhile now.
But I’ve accepted the fact that he will be give more chances than either Ortiz or Paulino. Cooper loves Moehler, and when he was pitching poorly earlier and was asked about Moehler’s spot in the rotation, Cooper said something like, “Moehler is my starting pitcher,” almost angrily.
In Moehler’s defense, he has pitched well enough lately.
well, maybe Blum wasn’t complaining, as I stated above, but showing frustration that he couldn’t throw to 2d.
? who knows
who knows…..usually make a youngster throw as many pitches as possible
"now you chunkin' in there.."
Astros
Look the team that traveled all night to get here….not the Giants…
"now you chunkin' in there.."
Geez...down 5-0 against the Giants...
gives you the feeling that the game is almost over.
Astros have to get to this rookie pitcher before it’s too late.
Radio guys
Talking about the 6 man rotation shorting the bullpen and guys being out of the normal rest patterns….
"now you chunkin' in there.."
Well, the 6 man rotation doesn’t work unless the pitchers are pitching deep into the games. In fact, that’s the idea. But it doesn’t work if you have a pitcher who has to be replaced early with any frequency, because you don’t have a long relief pitcher. I doubt that the rest patterns has much to do with anything. A 6 man rotation without regular off days, like the Astros will be facing, is not much different, pattern wise, than a 5 man rotation with occasional days offs.
True
Like you said though that supposes everyone goes deep into games. Games like this hopefully will be the exception. Cooper has to pull Paulino now doesn’t he? and who will he bring in?
"now you chunkin' in there.."
Dammit to hell.
I forgot I’m not watching it live. I have tivo and paused it. Haha not a good idea to read message boards. I just watch Carlos loaf over that fly ball. 10-0 and I’m apparently in for more bad news.
sigh
I’m all for good sportsmanship but theres a point when every batter is hitting shit…its time to send a message. J.D. is absolutely right.
Thats what I was thinking
as I typed that. J.D. is old school. If you’re getting knocked around…knock his ass down. We need Russ Springer back. I remember when he threw at Barry Bonds.
yeah, I was thinking of Springer as I wrote that. And I also think about a reliever like Wheeler. He may have had one of the more significant knock downs in Astros history, in th 9th inning of a game at Wrigley…and seemingly sending the Cubs into a spiral and the Astros into a string of wins which ended in the playoffs in 2004.
Springer is one of my favorite former Astros. Hell I’d still take him in the bullpen right now. Russ has a house in central Louisiana and I talked to the a school cop at my ex girlfriends high school almost a year ago. This guy grew up with Russ and is still good friends with him and has a bunch of autographs from the Dbacks world series team when Russ was there. He told me that Russ said he had it out for Bonds when he came in the game and was knocking down no matter what.
Yep
How about hitting somebody a few innings back. lol doesn’t matter now. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a shutout tonight. Its 13-0. I highly doubt the guys are into it.
Well....
this place really settles down when the team is getting skull dragged and doing nothing on offense.
I'm still new...
to these game threads around here. I though skull fucked may be inappropriate. Lol
13-0???
I feel fortunate I was doing something else tonight and missed most of the game.
This must have been painful to watch.
I don’t think the Astros will score 13 in the ninth.
Astros fan for life
by Joe in Birmingham on Jul 3, 2009 11:40 PM CDT reply actions
So...
We lose 13-0 and get 4 singles in the game PLUS Lincecum pitches tomorrow. Can it get worse?
Nope - Can only get better
Hallelujah
Astros fan for life
by Joe in Birmingham on Jul 3, 2009 11:47 PM CDT up reply actions
ASTROS LOSE 13-0
Chalk this one up to hubris from the Padres series and look forward to the Fourth of July fireworks.
Astros fan for life
by Joe in Birmingham on Jul 3, 2009 11:48 PM CDT reply actions
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NL Central Standings
| W | L | PCT | GB | STRK | |
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Cincinnati
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27 | 20 | .574 | 0 | Won 2 |
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St. Louis
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26 | 22 | .541 | 1.5 | Won 1 |
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Pittsburgh
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23 | 24 | .489 | 4 | Won 3 |
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Houston
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22 | 25 | .468 | 5 | Lost 2 |
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Milwaukee
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19 | 28 | .404 | 8 | Lost 2 |
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Chicago
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15 | 32 | .319 | 12 | Lost 12 |
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