Houston Astros at Florida Marlins, Aug 10, 2009 6:10 PM CDT
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Houston Astros Monday, Aug 10, 2009, 6:10 PM CDT Brian Moehler vs Rick VandenHurk Partly cloudy,rain. Winds blowing in from right field at 5-10 m.p.h. Game time temperature around 85.
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Lineup via Twitter:
- Michael Bourn - CF
- Kazuo Matsui - 2B
- Miguel Tejada - SS
- Carlos Lee - LF
- Geoff Blum - 3B
- Hunter Pence - RF
- Ivan Rodriguez - C
- Darin Erstad - 1B
- Brian Moehler - P
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Cecil Cooper must not like my idea of moving Lee to first and Michaels to left
Darin Erstad at first, Jason Michaels on the bench
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 6:05 PM CDT reply actions
MLB.com won't pull up broadcast
Grrr
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 6:32 PM CDT reply actions
Moehler has lost the ability to pitch a good game.
And he’s got a 2 year contract, I think.
We are starting too many games that are essentially over in the 1st, 2nd or 3rd innings.
the Astros and Moehler have a mutual option for next year
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moehler has not been good
and never liked him but everyone says hes been ok…any chance bazardo comes in today…
by EveryHoustonTeamRox! on Aug 10, 2009 6:41 PM CDT reply actions
4 hits, 2 walks and 4 runs later..
and it’s our turn to bat.
Who wants to bet we don’t get 4 hits and 2 walks until at least the 5th inning?
I think they 'll get the hits and walks
not so sure about the runs. Astros have three hits and on e walk
and NOW 2 runs on Erstad’s homerun
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 6:51 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm in bad mood
I am on hold to MLB.com listiening to a recorded mesage telling me every 20 seconds my call is important to them but that my wait will be longer than normal. Meanwhile Marlins scored four runs in the first and I missed it all (maybe that’s good that I could not see the carnage) .
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 6:43 PM CDT reply actions
see, I just made the conscious choice
to not watch any of Scuffy’s games.
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have you tried starting the audio first Joe?
You can switch the tv feed from there
by Timothy De Block on Aug 10, 2009 6:47 PM CDT up reply actions
I've tried every configuration
Still no good (And still on hold – but now a man ‘s voice tells me to continue to hold instead of a woman’s )
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 6:56 PM CDT up reply actions
maybe
you can blame Carlos Lee (or Purpura, or Drayton ca. 2006) for that.
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Aw, what the hell.
I’ll watch. And somehow the Astros have two runs, one out, and Moehler is batting
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holy crap
The White Sox got Alex Rios for nothing. I shit you not.
I mean, I know he’s been having a tough year, but surely the Blue Jays could afford to hang on to him for a little while longer, right?
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yea
i think rios is a good deal for the price …he plays great defense and he will get better on offense…
by EveryHoustonTeamRox! on Aug 10, 2009 6:59 PM CDT up reply actions
good deal...
But he is due something like 65 million dollars or something…..and he may well end up worth it. The Blue Jays just can’t afford him. The ownership group told them to cut payroll. The White Sox have always been high on Rios.
I'll take your word on that
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 6:58 PM CDT up reply actions
I had to listen to radio guys in my car through the early carnage. I’m not a Moehler fan. But the radio guys said the ump’s strike zone is tiny for both pitchers, and that the pitchers will have to start throwing the ball in the meaty area of the strike zone to get strikes. The problem is that a tiny strike zone probably hurts Moehler more than the Marlins’ pitcher, because Moehler stuff is so mediocre, he can get killed if he has to throw it down broadway.
I don't know if this kid is going to be able to work around it either
From what I’ve seen so far anyway.
by entropic soul on Aug 10, 2009 7:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Nice!
Pence reaches on a missed catch error, RHanley Ramirez to Uggla, throw pulls Uggla off the bag and then he sorta drops it.
Pudge ruins everything with a fly/pop out though.
Makes sense, seeing it.
Gameday had error, since corrected. :p
by entropic soul on Aug 10, 2009 7:20 PM CDT up reply actions
Brown: "Cody Ross has hit =three= grand slams this year"
So, obviously, he’ll hit one here.
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hmm
doesn’t it seem like Bourn ends up in a lot of these near-miss collisions in the OF?
Good catch by Hunter, but maybe he should have backed off.
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it's always the CFer's call....
I think he has a lot of near misses because Pence never wants to back off on balls in the air. Hunter told him, “I didn’t hear you.” Hunter seems to say that a lot to Bourn.
I don't see how he couldn't hear him
since there’s only 2,000 people in the ballpark.
by Timothy De Block on Aug 10, 2009 7:34 PM CDT up reply actions
Finally got the game
I was on hold with MLB.TV for over an hour and NEVER talked to anyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am not a happy camper. I’m the Astros will cheer me up (and I can get some food )
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 7:36 PM CDT reply actions
Jack in the Box is near me, and they have been running so many discounts and specials lately that I seem to be taking the easy way out on dinner, as I watch the Astros. I had: a “big deal” (cheeseburger, fries, taco, iced tea) plus free mini-churros (a mexican dessert) for something like $3.25. Of course, I suppose this pattern isn’t very healthy for me.
Tonight LeanCuisine Enchilada dinner after I piled on Jalapenos
now an orange to kill the burn
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 7:48 PM CDT up reply actions
Tejada just stole 2nd.
Lee.. uh.. did something with his bat which may have blocked the catcher’s viwe a bit (?)
wow
this is quite easily the most boring game of the season
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Pudge Rodriguez singled to center
Let’s Go Astros
Let’s do the wave
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 7:59 PM CDT reply actions
Pudge to second on wild pitch
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 7:59 PM CDT reply actions
Michaels goes to bat against Brian Sandwiches
(I thought his shirt said Sandwiches when he was in the bullpen)
Amazes me
how Michaels can be such a good batter when he starts the game but be so bad as a pinch hitter
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 8:08 PM CDT up reply actions
Brian Moehler settled down
(or the Umpire learned the strike zone)
after the first inning
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 8:01 PM CDT reply actions
Interesting article about pitcher abuse
in amateur leagues. According to Dr. James Andrews, the number of teenage pitchers getting TJ surgery has just exploded.
Having never gotten past tee ball, I never had that particular problem…
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James Andrews has long contended bioys under the age of 18
Should have very strict (low) pitch count
and NEVER throw a breaking pitch (the kids want to throw the breaking pitch and will tell you "Oh I don’t throw it that often)
uh huh
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 8:10 PM CDT up reply actions
good article....
but it makes me angry with Alden’s father and middle school coach. You ruin a kid’s arm because the coach is 0-13 against the school’s main rival? But I get more upset with the father…he is the one who should be protecting his kid’s arm. Instead it sound like he is trying to re-live his athletic career through his kid. At least Alden’s mother tried to send an email to the coach.
Chris Sampson
must have a physical problem he ’s not telling anyone . . . and the coaches are too incompetent to see the obvious (or do anything jabout it )
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 8:12 PM CDT reply actions
I assume you mean that balk call
it’s beyond unbelievable
and now Pudge must calm Sampson down.
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 8:18 PM CDT up reply actions
yep
Sampson freaking twitched.
Ump needs to be taken out back and fired.
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IBB to load the bases
One out
Pinch hitter
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 8:14 PM CDT reply actions
Suddenly it 's 6-2
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 8:18 PM CDT reply actions
and just as suddenly it's
7-2
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 8:19 PM CDT up reply actions
great job vets
good job…you guys have officially become the best hitters when there are 2 outs and no one on and when its to little to late…its ridiculous how poor our hitting has been time wise…we are good at getting hits, just terrible at getting them during the moments we need them…
7-3 now
by EveryHoustonTeamRox! on Aug 10, 2009 8:40 PM CDT reply actions
Darin Erstad doubled
Pudge Rodriguez scored
7-3
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 8:41 PM CDT reply actions
Why did we walk Johnson to get to Rameriez?
I was a bit puzzled by the walk to the pinch hitter to get to the hot-hitting lead-off guy, but it set up the double play so it made sense. Sure it backfired, but that’s the breaks. By why did Cecil Cooper chose to walk lefty Nick Johnson to get to the right-handed hitting National League batting leader? To set up a force at third? Makes no sense. Can anyone explain that one?
This was earlier in the game right ,when Sampson was pitching
I didn’t understand the second IBB either
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 8:48 PM CDT up reply actions
I had to register. I'm watching the Marlins broadcast and when Rameirez was at the
plate, they were talking about it again. Said it would be interesting to hear what astros players thought about the move. they were pretty confused.
Steve Sparks on the Astros' post game show....
criticized the IBB decision to bring up Ramirez. He said it is hard to understand or justify. “Sometimes the manager just has a feeling in the gut,” was the only rationale he could come up with. I think that is similar to my “why the hell not?” explanation for Cooper’s decision.
It's also kinda almost nearly similar to my
“Not I”
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 11, 2009 10:52 AM CDT up reply actions
Donnelly pitching for the Marlins
was at Round Rock earlier this season.
At his request Astros waived him. Now he is ding well with the Marlins
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 8:43 PM CDT reply actions
8-3
passed ball (or wild pitch )
wild pitch on Arias
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 8:47 PM CDT reply actions
Nice catch Hunter Pence
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 8:52 PM CDT reply actions
In Cardinals game
Albert Pujols batting with bases loaded
Flied out to left
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 8:59 PM CDT reply actions
8-5
Matsui reached on error
Tejada singled
Lee doubled
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 9:03 PM CDT reply actions
ASTROS LOSE 8-6
poorly played (and umpired) game
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 10, 2009 9:10 PM CDT reply actions
Chronicle's game story is funny.....
They let Richard Justice write it. And he takes some serious but funny pokes at Cooper:
MIAMI—There was Cecil Cooper’s peculiar decision to intentionally walk Nick Johnson and pitch to one of baseball’s 20 best hitters in the sixth inning.
Challenging Hanley Ramirez is an unusual way to try and win a baseball game, but maybe Cooper figured that since the logical ways weren’t working, he’d try something completely different.
``I don’t have a problem with that,’’ Cooper snapped later.
Well, okay then, Mr. Touchy.
Down the hallway, Hanley Ramirez didn’t have a problem with it either.
``That’s the first time I’ve seen it,’’ he said.
and this…
It was a game with all kinds of nooks and crannies, and not just because of Cooper’s bizarre decision to pitch to the National League’s leading hitter. Not that it matters, but Ramirez is also leading the NL in hitting with runners in scoring position.
If you like a man unafraid to put his head in the lion’s mouth, you’d love Cecil Cooper on Monday night.
Maybe Cecil Cooper has finally lost it.
maybe
he has realized that Drayton and Wade are keeping him on just so they can fire him at the end of the year.
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Russ Ortiz's first game in the Yankees' organization, in case you're interested....
Scranton (AAA) 1-0, 6 IP, 0.0 ERA, 3H, 3BB, 1.0 WHIP
That's good.
Call him back.
Tell him all is forgiven
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by Joe in Birmingham on Aug 11, 2009 10:54 AM CDT up reply actions
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