All around effort helps the Astros take the series: Pirates 2 - Astros 4
by Stephen Higdon on Sep 12, 2009 11:51 PM CDT
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PrintBrian Moehler had another solid outing, which continues to frustrate just about everyone who wanted to write him off at some point or another during that last two years. His line of 6IP, 2R (2ER), 4K, 3BB, 101 pitches (59 strikes), 13 GB, 3 FB, was a standard Moehler effort. With defense and offense both coming through for him, Moehler secured a win en route to the Astros clinching a series victory over the basement dwelling Pirates.
The win pulls the Astros within one game of .500 and thirteen wins away from meeting our Community Projection Project projection of 83 wins. That's a tall order, but realistically, if the Astros can finish at .500, I think many of us here will count that as a moral victory.
Before the game, Greg Lucas tweeted that were it not for the rain, the Astros would have played tonight's game with the roof open. With the NFL set to get underway in full tomorrow and the thermostat dropping, opportunities to revel in Astros victories are coming to a close. This is a sad, sad realization. Even mediocre-to-disapointing baseball is better to watch than no baseball.
Both Carlos Lee and Miguel Tejada went yard tonight. It's nice to see Tejada notch a HR just because I am beginning to sense that he'll be our regular 3B next year, so whatever power he has left in his bat, hopefully he can produce it for us at the hot corner next year.
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Do you really think that Tejada will be our 3B next year?
I was kinda getting a vibe that Tejada wouldn’t be around after this year.
Justice seems to think he won't
But I think Justice is full of it and just speculating.
In other news, some errors: The Astros are two games under .500, not one. Also, Moehler did not secure a win (for himself), but a no decision, since Miggy’s HR didn’t come until later.
Wesley Wright
Off the subject, but this was brought up yesterday, I think, about management wanting Wright to compete for a starter position in Spring Training next year. I was going through RJ’s comments just now and he says the team is sending Wright to winter ball as a starter.
from the HC this morning...
If you are still following this ex-Astros farmhand:
Pinch hitter Drew Sutton lined a two-out, two-run double off Carlos Marmol in the ninth inning to push the visiting Reds past the Cubs 7-5 after Cincinnati squandered a five-run lead.
Cecil Cooper says he won’t play the rookies much because “fans come to the ballpark to see their guys.”
The same article says that Drayton McLane told his team that he doesn’t want the lineup to look like “spring training.”
This franchise is screwed
The Crawfishboxes
A good friend of mine used to say, "This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
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