Houston Astros VS Toronto Blue Jays : Spring Training Game 13

by Stros Bro on Mar 10, 2008 10:31 AM CDT in News Comment 9 comments

Your Houston Astros take on the Canadian Blue Jays at 12:05 CST. Roy Oswalt takes the hill against Roy Halladay. Should be an interesting 2-3 innings to start off the game.

Astros make first line of cuts

Right-handers Brad James, Sammy Gervacio, Chad Reineke, Paul Estrada and Fernando Nieve and outfielder Yordany Ramirez were optioned to Triple-A Round Rock, while non-roster invitees Lance Niekro and Tommy Manzella, both infielders, and Josh Muecke, a left-handed pitcher, were reassigned to Minor League camp.

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busy day at work

won't be doing any PBP, but will be listening and lurking.

Astros leading 2-1 on a Lorretta RBI single in the bottom of the 2nd, scoring Blum who had doubled.

Berkman homered in the first. Jays answered in the 2nd, with a 2-out RBI single from Luna.

in the top of the 3rd, Roy's got a man on 3rd with one out. he's allowed 4 hits so far, with a run scored and a K. no walks.

by littlevisigoth on Mar 10, 2008 12:47 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

and the run scores

on a sinking liner. 2-2 now.

and i'm turning my attention to work now, i swear.

by littlevisigoth on Mar 10, 2008 12:48 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Comment on cuts

nothing too surprising. i thought a couple of the guys might stick around a little longer for the experience, but the counterpoint, which was made in the story, is that they need more PT, which they'll get in minor league camp.

so just keeping score, that leaves 22 pitchers (5 NRIs), 9 OF (4 NRIs and that includes Newhan, who seems to have been getting most of his time in the infield), 7 IF (1 NRI), and 6 C (3 NRIs), for a total of 44 players. we'll need to cut 10 more pitchers and 9 more position players.

in the game, the Jays took the lead in the 3rd, with Roy giving up 3 hits in the inning. Astros tied it in the bottom on Berkman's triple (yeah, you heard that right... good aggressive baserunning got him the hard half of the cycle) and Lee's sac fly. Roy blew through the 4th and is probably done for the day with 4 IP, 6 H, 3 ER, 3 K, and no walks. Other Roy also makes it 4 IP, with a similar line, just one less hit.

Randolph coming in to pitch the 5th.

by littlevisigoth on Mar 10, 2008 1:16 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

7th inning

Astros up 4-3 now. Lee with an RBI groundout in the 5th, scoring Pence who had reached on an infield single, moved to 2nd on an infield single by Erstad, and moved to 3rd on a double steal.

Randolph's inning was uneventful, getting his only baserunner (IF single) with a pickoff. Villarreal was solid for two innings as well, no baserunners. Guess he's yet to give up a run this spring over 5 IP.

7th just ended without a score. Gorneault, pinch running for Ausmus, was caught stealing in the inning.

4-3 Astros moving to the 8th.

by littlevisigoth on Mar 10, 2008 2:06 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

astros win 4-3

Geary with the save. Berkman with a huge offensive day which was too much for the Blue Jays.

by clack on Mar 10, 2008 2:28 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

None of the moves are all that surprising...

but I'm kinda confused why the Astros still have 6 C's (did I even read that right?) still in camp. Obviously Towles, Ausmus and Q aren't going anywhere for a while, but why are the others still around?

Does it have to do with helping all the P's still in camp?

James and Gervacio looked good. And at AA Corpus, they should get all the innings they can handle.

P.S. Any updates on the game?

by TexSkins on Mar 10, 2008 2:17 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, they need catchers...

because of all the pitchers in camp. Plus, Towles is injured and may be out of the spring games for awhile. Milo was mentioning on today's broadcast that the Astros will be stretched thin at catcher while Towles is out.

by clack on Mar 10, 2008 2:30 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

House is also out

if i'm not mistaken. i'm not sure what the deal with Castillo is, if he's actually going to play in the minors, or if bringing him to camp was just a favor to Tejada. he hasn't been talked about much so far. didn't even know we had a guy named Josh Johnson in camp until i was looking at the list of NRIs for this list. so that's two guys that may not even figure into the minor league picture that are just catching bullpen sessions and the sort.

yet ANOTHER report on the main site about carrying three catchers. guess if they hang onto Q until a few weeks into the season, before the bullpen might really get strained, the chances of him getting claimed off waivers maybe are a little slimmer. i can see that logic. it'd be a shame to lose him, since the rest of our system depth at catcher is pretty weak.

by littlevisigoth on Mar 10, 2008 2:47 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

9th inning

Geary pitching. Berkman led of the bottom of the 8th with a double, amassing 3/4 of the cycle, but the runner (Q of all people running for him) was stranded.

Geary worked around a leadoff single for the "save" (whatever that's worth in ST). nice work from the bullpen and a reasonably good outing from Roy. big game for Berkman, not only smacking the ball around the park, but running aggressively on the basepaths (run wouldn't have scored if he didn't take third in the 3rd), and getting his jersey dirty in the field.

no walks on either side of the ledger. Coop will like half of that statement.

Stros move to 5-8 on the Spring. head to Sarasota for a rare trip to play the Reds tomorrow.

by littlevisigoth on Mar 10, 2008 2:34 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

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