ST Game No. 29: Houston Astros at Detroit Tigers
by David Coleman on Apr 1, 2010 12:01 PM CDT
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PrintGrapefruit League record (thankfully over): 14-12-1
Today's starters: RHP Casey Daigle vs. LHP Ryan Ketchner
Jeff Fulchino, Matt LIndstrom, Brandon Lyon and Tim Byrdak are also scheduled to pitch.
Lineups, per Footer,
1) Michael Bourn, CF
2) Tommy Manzella, SS
3) Jason Michaels, RF
4) Carlos Lee, DH
5) Pedro Feliz, 1B
6) Chris Johnson, 3B
7) Kaz Matsui, 2B
8) J.R. Towles, C
9) Jason Bourgeois, LF
Minor leaguers Jay Austin and Jhonny Florentino are also on the bench for this game. Neither has made it into a spring game yet.
Listen to the game here. If you are in the Houston area, you can listen to the game on 790 KBME.
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Daigle is effectively wild with the splitter in the 2d inning, apparently. He allows a runner with a hbp, who advances to 2d on a stolen base, and advances to 3d on a WP strike out. He strikes out the next batter swinging to get out of the inning. Towles had to work hard to keep the runner from scoring from 3d on several balls in the dirt.
Is Detroit playing a bunch of minor leaguers?
The box score on MLB.com shows over half with a .000 batting average.
It appears that way. The rules require that a certain number of the players had to be starters or key players on last year’s major league team. Maybe the Tigers got some kind of waiver of the rule.
It has to be enforced first for teams to start abiding by the rules.
Remember a few years ago someone dinged Biggio for wearing the sunshine kids symbol on his hate in game. This after several years of him doing it ever spring training previously.
by Timothy De Block on Apr 1, 2010 12:58 PM CDT up reply actions
Daigle's faced the minimum through 4 innings
Thumbs up, Casey! Keep mowing ‘em down and you’ll be one of the first called up.
I've developed into a Casey Daigle fan this spring.
I wish he were in teh starting pitcher mix
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 1:27 PM CDT reply actions
At the other extreme
there’s Byrdak, who has been inexplicably bad this spring
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 1:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Byrdak began the fifth (?) inning loading the bases with no outs
He escaped allowing only one run .
Astros 2 Tigers 1.
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 1:35 PM CDT reply actions
I joined in mid-inning. He walked the third batter to load the bases.
The first out was a fly to outfield
The Final out was ground out to Manzella.
That’s all I remember
Box Score says 2 walks, one hit
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 1:41 PM CDT up reply actions
Interpreting the box score
It was walk -hit (double) – walk
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 1:43 PM CDT up reply actions
Top of the sixth not the fifth inning
Work detracts me .
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 1:44 PM CDT up reply actions
Detracts and Distracts
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 1:55 PM CDT up reply actions
Opening Day Monday Starting Time
6:00
I’m sure we’ll hear that many times before Monday but it is an earlier than expected starting tiem.
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 1:37 PM CDT reply actions
Roy O confirmed as starting day pitcher
by MLB.com.
Let’s hope nothing changes that.
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 1:38 PM CDT up reply actions
Almost all the Astros starters have left the game
Manzella contintues at shotstop
Carlos Lee continues as DH
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 1:46 PM CDT reply actions
73 degrees and sunny
wish I was there (actually that’s the kind of day we have here (76 and sunny ); except I’m indoors)
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 1:48 PM CDT reply actions
Tigers take the lead 3-2
Brandon Lyon pitching
Another hit, another run off Lyon.
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 1:50 PM CDT reply actions
Four hits in the inning so far for Tigers
Tigers had one hit total in the first six innings.
Tigers still batting
only one out
Runners on first and second
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 1:51 PM CDT up reply actions
Top of the seventh inning over
4-2 Detroit
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 1:53 PM CDT reply actions
Milo upset because Astros only mustered 3 hits
against Detroit’s minor league lineup (including pitchers)
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 2:04 PM CDT reply actions
well, the Astros’ lineup for the last several innings is composed mostly of minor leaguers, too. I think Manzella has been the only “regular” left in the batting order.
Let's see
Bourn 0 for 2
Lee 0 for 2
Manzella 0 for 3
Feliz 1 for 2
C Johnson 1 for 2 (homerun)
Matsui 0 for 2
Towles 0 for 2
Bourgeois 0 for 2
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 2:13 PM CDT up reply actions
A lot of guys are swinging early to get out of there ASAP, it is the final game in Florida after all.
by Timothy De Block on Apr 1, 2010 2:15 PM CDT up reply actions
Let's hope that's the reason anyway
Those dopey Detroit Tiger guys don’t know better. They’re walking and going deep into the count.
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 2:23 PM CDT up reply actions
Apparently the Rangers don't need a back RHB to back up 1st/3d anymore....
Rangers sign Garko off waivers. There goes OremLK’s idea to trade Keppinger to the Rangers.
Lugo and money to Baltimore for
player to be named later (or cash)
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 2:20 PM CDT up reply actions
Bourgeois doubled
Lef must be healed
Leaves game for pinch runner
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 2:17 PM CDT reply actions
Last April Fool's joke I played at TCB cured me from doing any more...
April fool’s jokes here. April 1, 2008 was the second day of the regular season. Hunter Pence had a bad first game in San Diego, striking out and looking bad at the plate. I prepared a fake Astros press release saying that Hunter Pence had been sent back to Round Rock, and quoting Cecil Cooper as saying that Pence needed more seasoning to hit in the major leagues. I posted it as fanshot. A lot of people thought it was true and posted comments bitterly complaining about Cooper. I had to post a reply reminding people what day it was. Since Pence went on a sustained slump after that (the beginning of the “I can’t hit a slider” season), I felt bad because it seemed like I jinxed Hunter.
Milo down to telling a man and a dog walk into a bar joke
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 2:24 PM CDT reply actions
Lindstrom pitches a scoreless ninth
Astros to bat in the bottom of the ninth
Last chance for Drew Locke to show his batting skill
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 2:28 PM CDT reply actions
Astros LOSE 4-2
Next stop: Minute Maid Park
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by Joe in Birmingham on Apr 1, 2010 2:36 PM CDT reply actions
ANOTHER homer for Johnson?
What got into this guy? He never hit more than 14 in a season in the minors, he has half that now in a tiny fraction of the plate appearances.
I wasn’t listening to the game—who was the pitcher he hit it off of? Just curious whether it was a RHP or LHP.
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