The Crawfish Boxes, a Houston Astros community

As you all know, the Astros just sent J.R. Towles down to AAA Round Rock due to his ineffectiveness at the plate and brought up Humberto Quintero.  The Astros still have at least one player (in my...

With 45 games in the past, I have to say that I'm pretty happy with the way the season is going... especially after seeing how badly the season started off.  The Astros currently sit in 3rd place...

  Stats don't lie...  Why he is still hitting 1st is beyond me.  

Current Series 3 game series vs Phillies @ Citizens Bank Park Tue 04/15 WP: Rudy Seanez (1 - 1) LP: Jose Valverde (2 - 1) 3 - 4 loss Wed 04/16 WP: Roy Oswalt (1 - 3) SV: Doug Brocail L...

Not exactly the ending we all hoped for, but a win is a win; and a win on a walk-off shot is exciting...  but I would have rather seen Wandy get the win that he earned after going 7.1 innings of 3...

I guess we'll have to jot this one down as a loss to be blamed on the pitching staff.  The Astros offense produced as advertised scoring 7 runs behind 12 hits, but unfortunately, the pitching...