2020 Astros Season Thread

[Gourmand 7774]

Astros were up 4-0 when I went to jack off.  Down 8-4 when I come back.  I guess I can't jack off anymore.

Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

[UTexasFight 9431]

[perfectchaos007 6634]

I'm sure it has been a long time since we gave up 9+ runs in an inning

[Gourmand 7774]

Any chance Lance was tipping?
 
 that went downhill in a hurry...even for Lance

That's what I was saying to my wife. She had no idea what I was talking about.

Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

[Gourmand 7774]

I'm sure it has been a long time since we gave up 9+ runs in an inning

Yeah that's the worst inning that I can remember in a long time. Reminiscent of that blown game in Pittsburgh back when Billy Wagner was pitching for us and the Pirates scored like seven or eight runs with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. Y'all remember that one?

Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

[Gourmand 7774]

Boooom

Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

[WBT 20561]

George is getting upset!!

We're still going to win.  Maybe.

[tx 3 putt 76905]

don't call it a come back !!!!!

[Seasick Sailor 3747]

That'll do

[UTexasFight 9431]

5 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

I'm sure it has been a long time since we gave up 9+ runs in an inning

Brian McTaggart @brianmctaggart

The last time Houston allowed 9+ runs in an inning was 8/19/2013 at Texas (11 in 3rd).

[Seasick Sailor 3747]

Nm

[WBT 20561]

3 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

Yeah that's the worst inning that I can remember in a long time. Reminiscent of that blown game in Pittsburgh back when Billy Wagner was pitching for us and the Pirates scored like seven or eight runs with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. Y'all remember that one?

Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk
 

Yep. Brian Giles walked it off maybe?

EDIT - here it is:

 

Edited August 6, 2020 by WBT

[UTexasFight 9431]

1 minute ago, Gourmand said:

Yeah that's the worst inning that I can remember in a long time. Reminiscent of that blown game in Pittsburgh back when Billy Wagner was pitching for us and the Pirates scored like seven or eight runs with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. Y'all remember that one?

Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk
 

Fuck you

[Tommy Nobis 905]

Any chance Lance was tipping?
 
 that went downhill in a hurry...even for Lance

I heard trash cans banging for sure

[UTexasFight 9431]

1 minute ago, WBT said:

Yep. Brian Giles walked it off maybe?

You guys suck

https://www.mlb.com/cut4/brian-giles-grand-slam-caps-comeback/c-139072576

[kevwun 15774]

Yeeesh, that was an ugly at bat by Bregman.  He swung at the same pitch 3 times.

[tx 3 putt 76905]

who do the astros cut after the game ?

have to drop 2

[WBT 20561]

Buck up, that was game one of a double header.  We won game two 12-3.

Edited August 6, 2020 by WBT

[Gourmand 7774]

Yep. Brian Giles walked it off maybe?

That's right! I had a big three or four team parlay bet that night that I thought had paid off because we were the last team on that one and I was at Joy Men's Club after work drinking and got really really pissed off when I saw the ending.

Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

[Scraps 13561]

who do the astros cut after the game ?
have to drop 2

The guy that relieved LMJ and the guy who ended last nights game seem like great options

[Scraps 13561]

Scrubb

[UTexasFight 9431]

6 minutes ago, WBT said:

Buck up, that was game one of a double header.  We won game two 12-3.

Oh that’s right!

that’s what I remember about watching that...

thinking “fuck. These guys aren’t going to want to come back out and play another 9.”

[WBT 20561]

1 minute ago, UTexasFight said:

Oh that’s right!

that’s what I remember about watching that...

thinking “fuck. These guys aren’t going to want to come back out and play another 9.”

I thought I remembered it being a DH and just looked it up.  Baseball-reference is one of the best thing about the interwebs.  Tony McKnight got the win in Game 2.

[Tommy Nobis 905]

who do the astros cut after the game ?
have to drop 2

Is the whole bullpen an option?

[tx 3 putt 76905]

fuuuuuuuuuuuuck

[perfectchaos007 6634]

Hitters altitude

[Tommy Nobis 905]

Do we have any starters that can go 6 fucking innings?

[clapclapclap 9000]

So Dusty is basically viewing this season as an extended spring training.  Learn what you have mode.

Edited August 6, 2020 by clapclapclap
And I think I'm ok with that

[tx 3 putt 76905]

2 minutes ago, Tommy Nobis said:

Do we have any starters that can go 6 fucking innings?

give it another week 

[Tommy Nobis 905]

So Dusty is basically viewing this season as an extended spring training.  Learn what you have mode.

Lol. We have nothing in the pen. How’s it his fault? And our starters can’t go more than 3-4 innings.

[Gourmand 7774]

This game is a beating.

Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

[clapclapclap 9000]

 

Quote

Lol. We have nothing in the pen. How’s it his fault? And our starters can’t go more than 3-4 innings.

Not talking about just this game.

Edited August 6, 2020 by clapclapclap

[Scraps 13561]

Yall talking about DHs....obviously being in Houston you don't get to see many of those, but I went to one at the Dome in 98 against the Mets.

Thinking back on it now I wonder why we played a double header at the Dome for this...

Looking it up from what I can tell we had a series in NY in april and one game was rained out....we went to montreal after....then were coming home to play the mets again. Instead of coming home they gave one of the home games to the mets so we flew back there for one game then to Hou to play 2 more to finish the series.

Then in Sept we played 4 games in Hou with one of those days being a doubleheader to make up for the april stuff.

[UTexasFight 9431]

Sept 15, 1998 was a scheduled DH if you can believe that.

all sorts of craziness with the schedule back then. That April trip to Montreal/NY you’re talking about started with an exhibition game against the Zephyrs in New Orleans (3 weeks into the MLB season...Was ‘98 their inaugural season?)

then come home for 2 against the Mets. Then go back to the east coast and play the Phillies.

 

 

[UTexasFight 9431]

Rondon on

we’re still in this 

[WBT 20561]

The Yuli!!

[UTexasFight 9431]

Idk when Correa started hitting like Altuve has for most of his career (taking what the pitcher gives him/ slapping the other way/etc) but I wish Altuve would start hitting like Altuve has for most of his career 

[Scraps 13561]

Did we sign the whole Mexican League?

/noracist

[Fudge Nuggets 19190]

2 minutes ago, Scraps said:

Did we sign the whole Mexican League?

/noracist

Post game buffet is best in the baseballs.

[UTexasFight 9431]

Cardinals make up for the earlier missed PAT and get the 2 pt conversion

Cardinals 14

Texans 7

 

i’m out

Edited August 6, 2020 by UTexasFight

[clapclapclap 9000]

6 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Post game buffet is best in the baseballs.

Gattis would have cleaned out the sopapillas.

[runthebone 7968]

All right, yes, Altuve is under .150, but you take away that nine run inning, and we are winning this game.

[perfectchaos007 6634]

8 minutes ago, runthebone said:

All right, yes, Altuve is under .150, but you take away that nine run inning, and we are winning this game.

He's really giving those haters who say he was only good at batting because of the cheating scheme lots of ammo.

[Honeysucklerose 987]

He's really giving those haters who say he was only good at batting because of the cheating scheme lots of ammo.

Ain’t that the truth. Something is up for sure

[UTexasFight 9431]

Other than the Correa outlier, you take off the names of these two pictures and I’m taking the putrid late 60s Astros offense over the defending AL champs :

 

 

(and yes, every SP of the ‘67 Astros had a better season batting average than our current DH)

Edited August 6, 2020 by UTexasFight

[Hank Chinaski 6314]

17 minutes ago, Honeysucklerose said:

Ain’t that the truth. Something is up for sure

Altuve entered tonight's game with a .167 BABIP. Then he went 0-3 on balls in play tonight. His career BABIP is .336. 

Per Baseball Savant, his xwOBA is only slightly better than his actual wOBA. He's pulling the ball more and making weaker contact than normal. His GB% is up, line drives down. 

He's striking out too much, but his K% has been climbing for 3 years now (and he has hit for more power in that time, so its a reasonable trade-off). 

It's too small a sample to make any determinations about anything. Unless he's completely collapsed as a hitter, his contact quality will tick up and he won't carry a .167 BABIP. 

[Guest]

Hopefully Tuve survives cut-down day...

 

[Scraps 13561]

knew this was coming when I saw them fuck with the roof:

“Opening the roof in the fourth is ass,” McCullers said. “It’s not an excuse. It just is what it is. Balls were being hit  that were routine pop-ups and they were landing off walls. It was kind of just an unfortunate inning. But, like I said, the stuff was there. I felt really good. I just have to keep moving forward with that.”

[Nice Guy Eddie 13510]

Given that more teams make the playoffs and 2019 taught us that home field advantage means zip, the team has time to figure this out.

[tx 3 putt 76905]

Just now, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Given that more teams make the playoffs and 2019 taught us that home field advantage means zip, the team has time to figure this out.

We are still in spring training mode